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Ryan Cleary A member of the computer hacking group LulzSec is due to be sentenced today for possessing indecent images relating to extreme child pornography.
Ryan Cleary, 21, of Wickford, known as ViraL, appeared in court last month where he admitted hacking and launching cyber attacks on a range of organisations including the CIA and the Serious Organised Crime Agency as part of his work with the "hacktivist" group.
He was jailed for a total of two years and eight months.
But Cleary, who has Asperger's, also admitted possessing indecent images relating to extreme child pornography, which were found on his hard drive.
He is due to be sentenced for this at London's Southwark Crown Court today.
His barrister, John Cooper QC, told the court in May how Cleary is a ''totally obsessed, compulsive individual'' who became fixated with computers after being sent to boarding school aged 11.
By the time of his arrest he was ''reclusive'', living in his bedroom.
Cleary is not ''a career sexual pervert'', Mr Cooper said, linking the 172 indecent images, downloaded in one session, to his Asperger's and computer obsession.
Fellow LulzSec members Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis and Mustafa Al-Bassam were handed various sentences last month for their roles in the hacking.
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