A disgraced Labour lawmaker has been sentenced to prison for posting photographs of children being raped on the internet.
Abdul-Majid Rahman, 34, covered his past as a ‘porn addict’ as a former municipal councillor and ran for Welsh Parliament as a Labour candidate last year.
Rahman, on the other hand, published heinous child abuse footage online and talked about his paedophilia obsessions with others.
Rahman said police he was ‘addicted to pornography’ after police discovered more than 100 movies and photographs on an iPhone and laptop, according to prosecutor Jason Howells.
Detectives later discovered he shared child abuse photographs on Facebook, according to Newport Crown Court.
Rahman was elected to the Newport City Council in May 2012, but after his arrest in October 2021, he resigned and relocated.
Rahman allegedly claimed in internet chats that he had been sexually molested as a child and that he had sexually abused a child, according to Mr Howells.
Rahman, who is married, claimed police he had no sexual interest in youngsters, but the judge said he was lying.
Rahman acknowledged to having and disseminating obscene photographs of minors, including Category A images, which are the most heinous.
Rahman had ‘struggled with his sexuality,’ according to his lawyer, Anu Mohindru QC.
‘This has now ruined my life, my career is over, and my marriage is likely over,’ Mr Mohindru said the defendant told him.
‘I was providing for my family and now I have nothing.
‘I do not know what I will do for a job, my options will be very restricted by virtue of the sex offender notification requirements.
‘I cannot explain what has happened and why I did it.
‘I accept the consequences are entirely my own fault.’
‘There was apparent suffering and distress felt by some of the youngsters depicted,’ Tracey Lloyd-Clarke, Recorder of Cardiff, said Rahman.
‘You were a part of a network or procedure that facilitated or commissioned the fabrication or sharing of obscene photos of children, and there were a variety of victims.’
‘It’s evident you’re attracted to children sexually.’
Rahman, who now lives in Porthcawl, South Wales, was sentenced to three years and eight months in prison and warned that he would be need to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.