INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
LONDON: An Indian NHS psychiatrist has been jailed for six years for helping run a child sex-abuse website and a British teacher with past
India stints convicted of paying and instructing teenagers in India to assault kids and send him images of such encounters, the two separate
and worked at the National Institute of Mental health and Neurosciences (Nimhans) in Bengaluru earlier, was sentenced on June 23 at Woolwich
He is on the Sex Offenders Register for life.Arrested in November 2022, Garg had pleaded guilty this January to eight charges, including
facilitating the sexual exploitation of children, and making and distributing indecent imagesThe same month that Garg was arrested, the
National Crime Agency (NCA) had picked up Matthew Smith, 34, a former British deputy head teacher from East Dulwich
Smith pleaded guilty on June 20 at Southwark Crown Court and will be sentenced on August 4.The NCA identified Garg, who lives in Lewisham,
as one of the moderators of the site The Annex, which had 90,000 members worldwide and saw hundreds of links to child abuse material shared
share images of child sexual abuse
When officers arrested the psychiatrist at his one-bed flat last November, he was reportedly logged into his moderator account.The NCA
uncovered over 7,000 indecent images and videos and numerous medical journal articles, which he had acquired as a psychiatrist
boy in India and asking him to send sexual images of a child in return for money
He had child-sex abuse websites open on his computer
His devices yielded over 1.2 lakh indecent images, officers said.NCA investigators established that Smith had paid two teenagers in India
worked in orphanages and NGOs across India
Investigators also found evidence that Smith had potential offending material on children in this period.Claire Brinton, specialist
