The Sun Hill team encounter a child porn syndicate

The Sun Hill team encounter a child porn syndicate
The Sun Hill team encounter a child porn syndicate (Image credit: Steven Peskett)

Beware of car boot sale bargains! If punter Paul Brewer is to be believed, you can pick up all sorts of nasty bits and pieces – including laptops that contain images of child pornography. That's what he tells DS Max Carter and DC Jo Masters, when his computer ends up in their hands. But he's not very bright – and they are. A quick check reveals that the images were downloaded after Paul bought the computer. So it's time for story number two: he lent the laptop to former cellmate George Fielding (Jeff Rawle – Amos Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), a convicted paedophile. DC Jacob 'Banksy' Banks goes to check this version and George confirms it. That wouldn't be surprising except George had been making real efforts to stay away from children. Banksy investigates a little more and discovers that George is lying, too, though. The images of the little girl weren't taken from the internet, they're from a camera – and were taken recently. Now the officers have to quickly find out who the little girl is as someone could still be abusing her. Max traces her parents, who tell him the little girl's uncle was caring for her on the day the photos were taken – and he's stunned when he realises who the uncle is…

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.