In 2024, James Burrow, the Ealing Paedophile, a physician who observed the drugging and sexual assault of a five-year-old girl, was exempted from incarceration. James Burrow, of Sayers Court, Ealing, London, W5, was originally ‘perplexed’ when his 10-year-old son opened the door to officers executing a search warrant at their £1.25 million semi-detached residence in the gated community of Sayers Court, Ealing, on November 15, 2022, as shown before Isleworth Crown Court on Thursday, December 21.
A 46-year-old specialist anaesthetist at Charing Cross Hospital in Hammersmith notified detectives of his IP address after obtaining illicit child abuse photographs. Upon the seizure of his equipment, including a computer tower located beneath his desk in the study of his newly constructed residence in West London, the police uncovered the illicit material.
The collection comprised 20 Category A photographs, the most egregious type, 10 Category B images, 112 Category C images, 97 forbidden images, and 1,781 extreme pornographic images, predominantly depicting sexual acts between humans and horses, as shown by court documents.
Prosecutor Phillip Allman said: “In particular, in one video, the child is approximately five years old and appeared to be drugged, struggling to keep her eyes open and sit up, before she is anally raped.”
When Dr James Burrow was arrested, he made no comment in his interview, but later pleaded guilty to all the charges at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court on October 1 this year. A social services investigation issued no further action, but the dad-of-one has only been allowed supervised contact with his son to date, Mr Allman told the court.
Defence barrister Jose Olivares-Chandler said: “After this case, he was allowed to continue working. As long as he did not care for children… but he chose to resign anyway to save embarrassment for his hospital.”
The GMC has said this is not the case. As is normal procedure after any criminal case, the GMC referred the doctor to an Interim Orders Tribunal in 2022 due to the seriousness of the allegations against him. He was put on an interim suspension during the investigation. Now that James Burrow has been found guilty, the case has been referred to an independent Medical Practitioners Tribunal. It is at this point that the doctor would have likely been sacked, had he not quit already.
In mitigation, Mr Olivares-Chandler explained his client’s struggling 11-year marriage had driven him to access the ‘porn’, but his wife was now supporting him. He said the offence was ‘out of character’ for James Burrow, and that it will ‘stay with him for the rest of his life’.
A suited James Burrow smiled as Judge Richard Inyundo sentenced him to 40 weeks for the Cat A images, and 20 weeks, 11 weeks, 11 weeks, and 28 weeks, all concurrent, for the remaining charges of Cat B, Cat C, prohibited images, and extreme pornography, respectively, suspended for 18 months.
Judge Inyundo warned: “If you commit any criminal offence within the next 18 months for which you are convicted, you also stand to go to prison for 40 weeks for this order itself.”
James Burrow, who left court peering over a surgical mask, was also handed a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and is subject to notification requirements for the same period. He was also ordered to complete 40 days of rehabilitation activity requirement and do 125 hours of unpaid work. He must pay 330 in costs within 28 days.
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