A former gymnastics coach has been jailed after creating images of children’s heads attached to nude bodies. Thomas Verdicchio, 24, of Seathwaite, Huntingdon, admitted making indecent images of children using “deep fake” technology after he was arrested in October 2024 following a referral from British Gymnastics. After his arrest, police officers seized his mobile phone, iPad and laptop, which contained two category B videos and 15 category C photographs – category A is the most severe.

Some of the images that the force found were digitally manipulated using “deep fake” technology to superimpose a child’s head onto a nude body. Verdicchio pleaded guilty to four counts of making an indecent photograph/pseudo-photograph of a child at a hearing in October. On Thursday, November 20, at C

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