A paedophile paramedic from Cornwall is struck off

Lee Lewitt was caught with 10,000 despicable child abuse images and videos.

Lee Lewitt

A paedophile paramedic caught with thousands of sick images of children being raped and abused has officially been struck off. In May last year, Cornwall Live reported how Lee Lewitt, then thirty-seven, had material showing the rape of infants as young as 12 months old and people having sex with animals.

Ex-RAF servicemember Lewitt, from Summer Court, between Newquay and Truro, was given a non-custodial sentence at Truro Crown Court that required him to complete unpaid work and a relevant sex offender treatment programme. He initially claimed to police he was addicted to adult pornography and accidentally accessed the images before making total admissions in a later interview.

Recently, Lewitt, also known as Jago Lee, was the subject of a hearing of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service’s Conduct and Competence Committee, which saw him officially struck off. An interim suspension had been imposed on Lewitt back in February 2021.

The hearing, held in Lewitt’s absence, ruled that his fitness to practice was impaired because of his convictions. The panel said: “The case involved a criminal conviction involving sexual conduct that concerned taking or making indecent images of children.

“The volume and nature of the illegal images were of a high degree of seriousness. The limited insight showed a lack of fundamental understanding of the registrant’s past actions or their actual impact on the victims, his profession and the wider public.

“The Panel concluded that only a Striking Off Order would be sufficient to protect the public, public confidence in the profession and the regulatory process and to declare and uphold proper standards of conduct in the paramedic profession.”

A paramedic and ex-RAF servicemember have avoided prison despite being caught with 10,000 sick child abuse images. Lee Lewitt, 37, had material showing the rape of infants as young as 12 months old and humans having sex with animals.

Lewitt of Summer Court appeared at Truro Crown Court, where he admitted three charges of owning indecent images of children and possession, often extreme pornographic images.

Prosecuting the case, Michael Brown described how intelligence was gained regarding Lewitt’s use of a cloud storage device to store indecent images.

Police searched Lewitt’s home and seized several devices. Interrogation of an iPhone showed a substantial number of indecent images, both still and moving, some of the photos showing children as young as 12 months old being abused. They were amassed between November 2018 and May 2020.

Lewitt was found to have 2,721 Category A images, 1,456 Category B, 3,529 Category C and ten extreme pornographic images showing humans having sex with animals.

In his first interview, Lewitt said he was addicted to adult pornography and must have accessed the indecent images by mistake. However, in his second interview, he made total admissions.

Standing for Lewitt, Chris Spencer told the court how he worked as a paramedic and was formerly in the RAF, completing three tours of Iraq. Mr Spencer added Lewitt’s experiences left him receiving treatment for PTSD and that he accepts his career is now finished.

Sentencing dad-of-three Lewitt, Judge Simon Carr said he had downloaded “a significant number of child abuse images.”

Judge Carr said: “I appreciate you are an intelligent man, so you should be able to understand the enormity of what you have done.

“Let me spell it out for you. Every day, tens of thousands of children are raped for the enjoyment of people like you. The people raping the children do not do it because of sexual interest; they do it because it is a business.

“Many hold people like you just as responsible; I certainly do.”

Judge Carr went on to state that Lewitt’s good character, the fact he is shown remorse and sought treatment after his offending and a realistic chance of rehabilitation meant he could suspend what would otherwise be an immediate custodial sentence.

Lewitt was given an 18-month sentence suspended for two years. He must also complete a relevant treatment programme and one hundred hours of unpaid work. Lewitt was made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order.