Bursar horrified at stolen IT equipment

Released 25/01/2012

A bursar has expressed horror at the amount of IT equipment found at an IT manager’s home

Jeffrey Gravell, an IT manager of Bury Port, Wales has been found in the possession of computers harbouring over 400,000 indecent images of children.

Gravell told Swansea Crown Court that he knew nothing of the images and often took home computers to repair at his home, and even had equipment delivered there.

Alan Williams the former bursar at Coed Cae School in Llanelli said that he did not give Gravell permission to take equipment off the school premises, and was “horrified” at the extent of the equipment in his possession.

Prosecutors told the jury that the indecent material was discovered on the computers at Gravell’s home when the school alerted Dyfed-Powys Police about missing equipment.

Gravell has claimed that the images must have come from the school network, and the computers were only on his premises because he was carrying out repair work.

Giving evidence in court, former school bursar Williams said shortly before he retired in October 2010 some computers went missing from the building, and CCTV images from security cameras showed that the computers had been delivered and signed for.

Further CCTV footage showed Gravell and his partner Helen Griffiths, who denies theft, taking boxes from the school in the early hours of the morning.

Gravell had been working at the school as an IT manager for over 10 years. The case will be adjourned until Wednesday.

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