LINCOLNSHIRE POLICE · view source
MARC GOTHORP
Age 45 · LINCOLN, LINCOLNSHIRE
Case and court outcome
- Sentence type
- Immediate custody
Verified case summary
This man, Marc Gothorp, is forty-five and from Lincoln.
He received a sentence of serious child sexual and image offences uncovered by specialist investigators.
Lincolnshire Police said Gothorp admitted three counts of arranging or facilitating the rape of a child under thirteen.
His other offences involved making one thousand eight hundred and seventy Category A images, one thousand three hundred and sixteen Category B images and five hundred and ninety-two Category C images.
He also admitted distributing twenty-one Category A files.
Officers from the force's Paedophile Online Investigation Team arrested him in November twenty twenty-five as part of work with a regional organised crime unit.
At sentencing, Lincoln Crown Court found that Gothorp met the legal criteria for a dangerous offender.
He received ten years in prison and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.