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Jay Shaw sentenced to 9.5 years for indecent image distribution

By Drooid · Oct 23, 2026, 10:50 PM UTC · How we work

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Jay Shaw was sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in prison and a five-year extended licence.
Katie Vernon received a four-and-half-year prison term for sexual assault on a male child.
Both remain on the lifelong sex offenders register and have sexual harm prevention orders.
OCAIT raid on Shaw’s Leigh home on July 1, 2026, found a phone with 5,000 images, including 3,000 Category-A.
Shaw admitted distributing indecent images and possessing a paedophile manual.

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Story summary

Jay Shaw was sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in prison and a five-year extended licence.
Katie Vernon received a four-and-half-year prison term for sexual assault on a male child.
Both remain on the lifelong sex offenders register and have sexual harm prevention orders.
OCAIT raid on Shaw’s Leigh home on July 1, 2026, found a phone with 5,000 images, including 3,000 Category-A.
Shaw admitted distributing indecent images and possessing a paedophile manual.