Clapham man continued to offend while on bail for child sexual abuse offences

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Clapham man continued to offend while on bail for child sexual abuse offences

Postby Community Editor » Thu Dec 12, 2019 6:19 am

A civil servant who was arrested for online child sexual abuse offences twice went on to commit more offences while on bail.

Press officer Richard Arcari, 37, was arrested and bailed in February 2017 by Metropolitan Police officers who received intelligence he had watched an online video of a man raping a boy and had offered to swap videos with other offenders.

When he was arrested his iPad was seized and it contained hundreds of child abuse videos and images.On March 7, 2018, National Crime Agency officers investigating an online conferencing room where child abuse was streamed arrested Arcari, who used the identity ‘FitPrvUK’.

Arcari, of Kings Avenue, Clapham, had acquired a new Hewlett Packard laptop which also contained hundreds of abuse images.

He told investigators he visited the conferencing room to watch male pornography but could not remember what he’d viewed or streamed because of his use of crystal meth.

Just 17 days later NCA officers searched his home again after discovering he was using the conferencing room under the new name TabBoy which he used to comment on abuse images while they were streamed.

NCA officers recovered another Hewlett Packard laptop and an iPhone which both contained child sexual abuse material.

On September 6, 2018, Arcari’s employer Defra – the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – notified the NCA that during a routine security check they discovered an unauthorised memory stick had been inserted with file titles indicative of indecent images of children.

NCA officers searched his home again and Arcari handed over a SanDisk USB and Defra supplied his laptop. Both contained more abuse content.

In total, Arcari had 716 category A (the most serious) stills and videos, 588 category B stills and videos and 344 category C stills and videos.

Arcari pleaded guilty to 22 charges including making indecent images of children, possessing extreme pornographic images, possessing class A drugs and intentionally encouraging or assisting the commission of an either way offence.

On December 10, at Inner London Crown Court he was jailed for 42 months, put on the sex offenders register indefinitely and given a sexual harm prevention order restricting his use of the internet.

NCA operations manager Graham Ellis said: “The evidence showed Arcari was visiting online conference rooms to watch child abuse from as long ago as November 2015.

“Even when he had been arrested and was on bail he continued to offend.

“Every time footage is replayed or an image re-shared, that child is re-victimised.

“There is no greater priority for us than protecting children.”

Photo: Richard Arcari

 
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