In 2024, the Offender Database reported that Toni Prince, the Transgender Sheffield Paedophile, a resident of Sheffield, had been summoned before the city’s Crown Court after confessing to collecting more than 1,100 indecent photos of children, including some depicting the rape of youngsters as young as five.
South Yorkshire Police (SYP) conducted a raid on the residence of Toni Prince, 55, following intelligence indicating the individual had been downloading obscene photos of minors.
Authorities confiscated two laptops and a mobile phone from the residence of Toni Prince, a transgender woman whose legal name is Anthony.
Prosecutor Carl Fitch informed Sheffield Crown Court that Toni Prince, residing on Infirmary Road, Upperthorpe, was interrogated by police shortly after the burglary and provided ‘full and candid admissions.’
Mr Fitch informed the court that, although Toni Prince’s prompt and ongoing collaboration with law enforcement after the June 2016 search, the police did not finalise the examination of her personal devices until August 2018.
Mr Fitch stated to Judge Peter Kelson QC, “As Your Honour is aware, cases involving indecent images require extensive processing time.”
Analysis indicated that Toni Prince had downloaded a total of 1,191 obscene photographs of children aged between five and thirteen years.
Toni Prince downloaded a total of 108 Category A photographs, the most severe legal classification, which includes content depicting the rape of children, along with 90 Category B images and 993 Category C images.
She additionally downloaded 53 photographs of ‘severe pornography’ and 337 illicit images of minors, which the Crown Prosecution Service categorises as ‘non-photographic’ images.
This includes ‘cartoons, manga and drawings’.
Toni Prince pleaded guilty to charges including making indecent images of children, possession of prohibited images of children, and possession of extreme pornographic images at an earlier hearing.
Judge Kelson said he regarded the three-year wait Toni Prince had endured for her case to come to court as ‘torture’.
After requesting legal guidance from Mr Goldsack on whether a defendant whose case has taken years to come to court should have their custodial sentence ‘minimised or suspended,’ Judge Kelson told the court he would adjourn the rest of the sentencing hearing until Friday, July 19.
He said: “The difficulty I have is this case is well past the custody threshold and suspect that had it come to court within six months, the defence would have come into difficulty in suggesting the custodial sentence should be suspended.”
Judge Kelson told Mr Fitch he would like to receive a letter from SYP’s chief constable, Stephen Watson, by Friday to explain why it had taken over two years for the force to analyse Toni Prince’s devices – even after she admitted to her crimes in a police interview.
As he released Prince on bail until Friday’s hearing, Judge Kelson told her: “Ms Toni Prince, you have been subject to shocking delays, and I’m now creating a further four-day delay before sentencing you, but I need more help. Your offences are very serious, you know that…if I had sentenced you today, I would have sent you to prison…I’m not threatening you, and I’m not saying what your sentence will be on Friday.
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