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Labour councillor and aide to a Labour MP has avoided an eight month jail sentence after he admitted possessing more than 500 pornographic images of children.
Conor McGrath, 29, worked for Stevenage Labour MP Kevin Bonavia and served as a borough councillor in the Hertfordshire town between 2023 and 2025.
He was sentenced at St Albans Crown Court to eight months in prison, suspended for two years.
McGrath, of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, had pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children, at Stevenage Magistrates’ Court last month.
McGrath admitted making 77 category A images, 109 category B images and 329 category C images and videos, between June 2024 and March 2025.
Police seized McGrath’s devices when he was arrested on 25 March last year, on another serious matter.
He told a colleague he was worried police may find “rude photographs” and believe he was a paedophile, the court heard.
After this, his electronics were seized again and police found child rape images on them.
Claire Beards, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “The volume and nature of the indecent images that McGrath collected and stored showed his sustained and unlawful sexual interest in children.
“Some of the images were among the most serious and disturbing for which a person can be prosecuted.”