Sheffield man, 20, caught with indecent images of children aged between three and 13
A man from Sheffield has avoided jail after being caught with indecent images of children.
A 20-year-old man from Sheffield who was found with indecent images of children aged between three and 13 has been sentenced.
Raja Shabir Khan, of Dundas Road, was just 17 at the time he began his offences.
Sheffield Crown Court heard how he was a part of an online group of people “doing the same kind of thing” he was.
Stuart Bell, prosecuting, explained how in April 2024, police officers attended his address and seized his iPhone, where upon examination they discovered the indecent images.
There was also a collection of images found on an online messaging platform called “Telegram”, where “extreme pornographic” photos were found.
Mr Bell said Khan was found to have images of children “between the ages of three and 13-years-old”.
Within this group chat, three members of the group also had indecent photos as their profile pictures.
The creation of these images was happening for just over a year, between March 30, 2023 to April 7, 2024, the court heard.
Khan was charged with three offences in total, including making a category A indecent photograph/ pseudo-photograph of a child, a category B image and a category C image.
Mr Bell shared how the defendant had no previous convictions.
His honour Judge Graham Reeds said: “He was still legally a child when he was doing this.
“He was part of a group of people doing the same kind of thing.”
The aggravating factors the judge highlighted was that there were also “video images” found, and that Khan was “looking for those over time”.
The judge explained the mitigating factors include his guilty plea, his age at the time of the offences and that he hasn’t “been in trouble since”.
On Thursday, November 5, 2026, Raja Shabir Khan was sentenced to 32 weeks imprisonment suspended for 18 months for the charge of making a category A indecent photo of a child at Sheffield Crown Court.
He was handed a sexual harm prevention order of five years and will be placed on the sex offender register for ten years.
The judge explained there will be no unpaid work requirement because a “suspended sentence is punishment enough”.