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09-23-2010, 02:42 PM
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A HANDYMAN who ruined a school caretaker's life by planting child porn on his computer was jailed for 12 years today.
Neil Weiner launched the "wickedly evil and vile plot" hoping to get Eddie Thompson sacked so he could be promoted.
But the 40-year-old was convicted today of perverting the course of justice and two counts of possessing indecent images of children at the Old Bailey.
Judge David Paget told him: "What you did to a decent and honest man was in my view wicked.
"It is difficult to imagine a more cunning, deceitful or warped course of conduct than yours in this case, or a more malicious one."
The court heard how he sent police a CD containing indecent images of children saying they came from Mr Thompson's laptop.
Hundreds more pictures were later found on the computer and the caretaker was arrested in October 2006.
He told cops he had been set up by colleagues who did not like him but it was eight months before he was told no further action would be taken.
When the details of the allegations were leaked by Weiner to a local newspaper, Mr Thompson and his wife became afraid to leave the house.
He even received threats and was spat at in public.
Even when he returned from suspension to Swanlea secondary school, in Whitechapel, East London, where he had worked since 1993, Mr Thompson said he was shunned by nearly all the staff, making his life "almost unbearable".
The 62-year-old Scottish-born caretaker said in a statement read to the court: "My life and good name was nearly destroyed by a villain who tried to destroy my reputation in a monstrous manner.
"This must be the work of a depraved mind."
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Jurors heard that Weiner, a computer "wizard" who worked at the school as a handyman assistant, was arrested in 2007.
Richard Milne, prosecuting, said the child pornography on the caretaker's computer was planted by Weiner "for no better reason than to get him the sack so that he could get promotion, and because he did not like him".
Some of the images were level 4, the second most serious.
Weiner, a married father of two, from Dagenham, East London, was convicted of his crimes in August.
A HANDYMAN who ruined a school caretaker's life by planting child porn on his computer was jailed for 12 years today.
Neil Weiner launched the "wickedly evil and vile plot" hoping to get Eddie Thompson sacked so he could be promoted.
But the 40-year-old was convicted today of perverting the course of justice and two counts of possessing indecent images of children at the Old Bailey.
Judge David Paget told him: "What you did to a decent and honest man was in my view wicked.
"It is difficult to imagine a more cunning, deceitful or warped course of conduct than yours in this case, or a more malicious one."
The court heard how he sent police a CD containing indecent images of children saying they came from Mr Thompson's laptop.
Hundreds more pictures were later found on the computer and the caretaker was arrested in October 2006.
He told cops he had been set up by colleagues who did not like him but it was eight months before he was told no further action would be taken.
When the details of the allegations were leaked by Weiner to a local newspaper, Mr Thompson and his wife became afraid to leave the house.
He even received threats and was spat at in public.
Even when he returned from suspension to Swanlea secondary school, in Whitechapel, East London, where he had worked since 1993, Mr Thompson said he was shunned by nearly all the staff, making his life "almost unbearable".
The 62-year-old Scottish-born caretaker said in a statement read to the court: "My life and good name was nearly destroyed by a villain who tried to destroy my reputation in a monstrous manner.
"This must be the work of a depraved mind."
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Jurors heard that Weiner, a computer "wizard" who worked at the school as a handyman assistant, was arrested in 2007.
Richard Milne, prosecuting, said the child pornography on the caretaker's computer was planted by Weiner "for no better reason than to get him the sack so that he could get promotion, and because he did not like him".
Some of the images were level 4, the second most serious.
Weiner, a married father of two, from Dagenham, East London, was convicted of his crimes in August.