Past disciplinary findings

John Guess, a barrister, engaged in conduct likely to diminish public trust and confidence which the public places in a barrister of the profession and behaved in a way which could reasonably be seen to undermine his integrity in that between 15 August 2015 and 6 April 2018 he:
i. Sexually abused a child under the age of 13;
ii. Recorded and distributed images of the abuse referred to in (i) above;
iii. Sexually abused a child under the age of 13 on more than one occasion;
iv. Recorded and distributed images of the abuse referred to in (iii) above;
v. Aided another individual in his sexual assault of a child under the age of 13;
vi. Incited a girl under the age of 18 to expose herself to him in a sexual manner and to send him photographs of the behaviour;
vii. Made multiple indecent photographs of children;
viii. Possessed indecent images of Category A1, 1000 images of Category B, 10,000 images of category C and multiple images and videos characterised as extreme pornography.

As a result of the conduct summarised above, on the 6th August 2018 was convicted at the Crown Court sitting in Cardiff on his pleas of guilty and sentenced under section 226(a) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 to a total of 20 years imprisonment with an extended licence period of 6 years. He was also made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and ordered to register on the Sex Offenders Register indefinitely.