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| Mr Justice Adrian Fulford reduced Stephen Horn's 18-month jail term and overturned his lifetime ban from unsupervised access to children |
Stephen Horn, 34, admitted viewing child pornography over 13 years and downloading 20 hours of sickening footage.
He was jailed for 18 months in December and banned from having unsupervised contact with any child under 16.
Horn appealed the severity of his jail term which was reduced to ten months by three High Court judges including Lord Justice Adrian Fulford.
Last month he was forced to defend himself over historic links to the controversial Paedophile Information Exchange.
The senior judge and two colleagues ruled that Horn had not breached his trust as a teacher because his crimes did not involve his pupils.
They also said the Sexual Offences Prevention Order which banned him from unsupervised contact with children was unfair.
The judges also quashed the £100 victim surcharge and said it had been unlawfully imposed because some of Horn’s crimes happened before it came into force.
In their judgement Judge Fulford and his two colleagues ruled: 'None of the offences involved a breach of trust as a teacher.
'The victims were not his pupils but unidentified children abused by others and the fact that he was working with children, none of whom was assaulted by him, and none of whom was at risk of being assaulted by him, cannot in our judgement aggravate his offending.'
The Mail on Sunday last month said Lord Justice Fulford, 61, was a founder member of a campaign to defend PIE that once tried to legalise sex with children. (more...)
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