A teenager was stunned after a selfie prank ended with her discovering a secret stash of sickening child porn on her housemate’s phone.
Kirsty-Ann Barr, 18, had been living in a shared house with her boyfriend and another man, Nathan Kozel, when she made the distressing find.
After a night boozing, Kirsty-Ann and her partner decided to take some selfies on Nathan’s phone.
Kirsty-Ann, of Hull, East Yorks., said: “Nathan was drinking and he got quite drunk. He was sat in mine and my boyfriend’s room.
“He got really drunk so we just thought for a laugh we would go and do selfies on his phone.
“We opened the phone up and found these photos of children. I was just completely shocked. There were loads.
“We got my boyfriend’s iPad and starting filming us scrolling through them in case he deleted them. It was disgusting.
“There were images of young children posing and adults with them. It was just horrible.”
Public-spirited Kirsty-Ann wasted no time in calling the police, and Kozel was arrested. His phone and other electronic items were seized.
She added: “I was just in complete shock. We couldn’t believe what was on there.
“I helped Nathan out with a lot of things around the house, like cooking, washing and cleaning, and we had ended up being good friends.
“To find something like that on his phone is just disgusting.”
Kozel, 24, appeared at Hull Magistrates’ Court, where he admitted six charges of making an indecent image of a child, one charge of possession of indecent photographs of children, two charges of possessing prohibited images of children.
He also pleaded guilty to two charges of possessing an extreme photographic image of a person performing a sex act with a horse.
Kozel was fined £20 and must have 30 days’ rehabilitation.
He was also ordered to pay a £60 surcharge and made subject to a sexual harm prevention order.
Kirsty-Ann, who has since moved out of the bedsit, said she was surprised by the sentence.
“I don’t think that’s fair for what he had on his phone at all. I think he should have got more than he did.
“Seeing the images that I saw, I know how wrong and horrible they were.
“Something should have happened more than just a fine.”
