Paedophile NHS anaesthetist, 37, who took indecent photos of unconscious patients including girl, five, loses bid to shorten jail sentence

Daily Mail​

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An anaesthetist who took indecent photos of a five-year-old girl while she lay unconscious has lost a bid to shorten his sentence.
Edward Finn committed 'about as egregious breach of trust as can be imagined' when he captured the pictures of four female victims.
The 37-year-old made indecent images of a five-year-old girl and an adult patient after he anaesthetised them.
And he also took photos of his wife while she was asleep, as well as a three-year-old daughter of a family friend.
Finn was sentenced in June 2024 to eight years in jail with an extended licence of four years after pleading guilty at Nottingham Crown Court.
He subsequently challenged the length of his sentence - though the Court of Appeal in London has now dismissed this.
Mr Justice Johnson, sitting with Lord Justice Fraser and Judge Martin Picton, said Finn's offences took place between 2014 and 2023.
He was caught after his wife found images of naked children on an old iPad, in a folder labelled 'hidden', the judge said.
Further investigations into all of Finn's devices revealed thousands of indecent images of children, including more than a hundred in the most serious category, and images of an adult and a child taken during the course of his work.
Finn, from Cotgrave in Nottinghamshire, told officers he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after a girl he was treating had died.
He also tried to take his own life before he was arrested and charged, the court heard.
Andrew Wesley, for Finn, said at the appeal hearing on Friday that the sentence was too long because of 'the mathematics' of how it was reached.
But the judges dismissed the appeal, with Mr Justice Johnson adding: 'This was about as egregious a breach of trust as can be imagined.'
He continued: 'We conclude that the sentence imposed was not wrong in principle or manifestly excessive.
'We therefore dismiss the appeal.'