A PART-TIME DJ who fantasised about raping and murdering a youngster has been sentenced for making and showing some of the worst child sexual abuse images investigators have ever seen.

Haitch Macklin, 38, sold access to his horrendous catalogue to fellow paedophiles for £10 per month via an encrypted messaging app in the loft of his home in Higher Broughton.

His collection included sexual torture videos of babies and toddlers and Macklin spoke of his desire to acquire ‘snuff’ films showing real-life murders.

He also told another offender that he wanted to murder someone and film it.

Macklin admitted three counts of making indecent images of children and two of showing the same material.

He appeared at Manchester Crown Court today, where he was jailed for 20 months.

The court heard how in December 2018, in an online chatroom using the name ‘UK Perv’, Macklin advertised access to imagery via a server for a monthly subscription of £10.

Macklin, who was born David Bradley but is also formerly known as Haitch Bradley, advertised in various chatrooms, explained he was a paedophile and signed off one advert “NO MORALS!!!!”.

He sent users instructions about how to stream the material from his server.

In an international operation involving under cover officers from America and New Zealand, intelligence received by the National Crime Agency (NCA) led to officers raiding Macklin's home in April 2018 where they recovered items including an iPhone, a laptop and hard drives.

Justin Heyhoe, prosecuting, described how they were found to contain 2,196 indecent images of children, of which 680 were the most serious category A images.

Many of the images were "inaccessible", but they featured children aged from as young as 12-months-old to 15-years-old.

After his arrest, Macklin was released under investigation, but he quickly began offering an online 'streaming service' to other paedophiles, using a device he kept in his loft.

Experienced officers described the footage he possessed as "some of the most horrific and disturbing content they’ve ever seen in many years".

Macklin told officers he was hearing voices "telling him that he was a paedophile" and he claimed he was a schizophrenic.

He also claimed he was being blackmailed and people were demanding money from him.

Mr Heyhoe said an American law enforcement officer had an online conversation with Macklin where he said he had already signed up nine subscribers and promised that more child abuse images would be made available.

Macklin assured the officer the transaction was "completely safe" with payment taken via Paypal.

Macklin, who performed as DJ Spook, had a similar conversation with an undercover officer in New Zealand

The NCA were made aware and a raid was carried out on Macklin's address in February 2019.

NCA officers arrested Macklin, of New Devonshire Square, who had no previous convictions.

In April 2018, Greater Manchester Police officers (GMP) had arrested him in an unrelated investigation into indecent images of children (IIOC). Charges relating to the GMP investigation are lying on file.

Adam Watkins, defending, said Macklin's attempts to set up a subscription service were those of an "amateur", as he had used his own Paypal account with his name, and his own mobile phone number.

Character references were read out in which he was described as a "caring person" who had helped a neighbour with her mental health issues.

Mr Watkins added that Macklin had been at a particular low point when the most recent offences occurred and had been sectioned at the time.

Judge Elizabeth Nicholls rejected this saying there "does not seem to be a correlation between the offences and your mental health".

In addition to his sentence, Macklin will be made to sign the offenders register for 10 years. He was also made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order putting stringent conditions on his computer and internet use.

Following the sentence, NCA operations manager Hazel Stewart said: “A team of officers viewed, assessed and graded the material Macklin sold access to, and all noted that this is some of the most horrific and disturbing content they’ve ever seen in many years investigating child sexual abuse.

“Macklin posed a very real and dangerous threat to children.

“Not only was he viewing and profiteering from indecent images of children, he was also harbouring thoughts of committing rape and murder.

“The NCA knows there is a direct link between offenders looking at abuse images and going on to commit even more severe acts.”