Newlywed discovered husband was paedo after checking phone over cheating fears

A newlywed woman checked her husband’s phone when she suspected he was cheating – and discovered he was a secret paedophile.

Horrified Michelle Power, 47, was devastated after snooping through the mobile of James Wright, 58, to find hundreds of indecent images of children.

Michelle says she decided to check her husband’s handset when he went off sex shortly after their marriage.

She became suspicious he was messaging other women.

But she discovered Wright’s twisted stash of sex abuse images – with pictures of children as young as three months old.

She told of her traumatic decision to go to police after her husband was jailed for two years for having the indecent images.

Michelle said: "I began to suspect he was cheating on me. Then I became extra-suspicious when he spent every spare second on his phone.

"He was literally glued to his screen. If I asked him what he was doing he’d just huff and say he was on Facebook . He always looked guilty and would turn it off when I appeared in the room."

Michelle then checked her husband’s phone after he received an upgrade.

She said: "My heart raced as I was waiting to find some saucy messages and there were hundreds of them – all describing sexual acts – dozens of calls from unknown numbers.

"Then I clicked on to his pictures and then I found something far, far worse than I could have ever imagined.

"I could barely breathe when I saw those terrible photographs. There were lots of photographs of very young children being abused. It was horrific."

Health worker Michelle, of Swansea, South Wales, contacted a lawyer who told her to take her evidence to the police.

Michelle said: "I told them everything. I was very scared but later that day they arrested James. His words to the police were: ‘I know I should not be doing it’.

"I remember getting home and seeing our wedding photograph on the mantelpiece. I looked at James and wondered who on earth he was – this man I’d exchanged wedding vows with.

"It was utterly sickening to think I’d loved and trusted this man."

Michelle told how the couple had married in 2013 but sex between them quickly fizzled out after their dream wedding on the Greek island of Zante.

She said: "James was so charming, but he had no interest in me in the bedroom.

"Sex with him was a complete let-down and if I tried to talk about it he’d just close me down and wouldn’t talk about it.

"But now I know why our sex life was completely non-existent – James got his thrills from much darker places. I am just very glad he is behind bars where he belongs – he has devastated so many lives."

Wright, of Sandfields, Swansea, admitted possessing and distributing images of children at Swansea Crown Court in February 2018.

Judge Geraint Walters QC told him: "You peddled the misery of real children.

“The possession of images of children is a serious offence but you’ve been involved in the distribution of the most obscene images of young children, including infants as young as three to six months.

“It is a grave and appalling abuse of young children, real children being abused by real adults.

“Each time it is distributed and seen by an adult the same child is being abused all over again."

Wright was jailed for two years and ordered to sign the sex offenders register.

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