Porn-planting handyman told he faces long jail term

A HANDYMAN who ruined a school caretaker's life by planting child pornography on his computer faces jail for perverting the course of justice.

Neil Weiner launched the "wickedly evil and vile plot" hoping to get Eddie Thompson sacked so that he could be promoted.

He sent police a CD containing 177 indecent images of children saying they had come from Mr Thompson's laptop, the Old Bailey heard.

Richard Milne, prosecuting, said the child pornography on Scots-born Mr Thompson's computer at Swanlea secondary school, in east London at was planted by Weiner "for no better reason than to get him the sack so that he could get promotion, and because he did not like him".

Weiner, 39, of Dagenham was convicted of perverting the course of justice and two counts of possessing indecent images of children. He was placed on the sex offenders' register and remanded in custody, and warned by Judge David Paget that he faced a "substantial custodial sentence" when he returns to the court on 23 September.

The judge told him: "As you ponder the long sentence you receive you may like to consider that you will now be treated as a sex offender.

"No doubt the prison population being the fair-minded people they are, you will experience the sort of vilification that Mr Thompson has received of people who believe you are a paedophile. I don't suppose you are a paedophile any more than Mr Thompson is but that is what you have done by polluting the streams of justice."