On August 31, 2017, he was jailed for 14 months.īranney, of Littler Trelower Park in St Austell, was released the following March and on Friday January 3 was back in the dock at Truro Crown Court for admitting possessing five extreme pornographic images. The crime, which occurred between March 30 and June 21, 2016, placed Branney in breach of a suspended sentence handed to him in May 2016 after he admitted possessing indecent images of children, making an indecent image and possessing an extreme image portraying a sexual act with an animal.īranney had been a police officer for 28 years before retiring in 2001 and spent four years working in child protection, helping to protect children from sexual abuse from adults. Paedophile Robert Branney, now 73, was jailed in 2017 after previously pleading guilty to one charge of making indecent photographs of a child. A former police officer who worked as part of a child protection team is back behind bars for a second time after being caught with pictures showing people having sex with dogs, horses and pigs.
