The numerous depraved crimes committed by Jonathan Le Tocq included using AI platforms to create ‘pseudo indecent images’ of children and women that he knows.
He did this on hundreds of occasions between 2016 and 2025 when he was stopped by Guernsey Police, acting on a tip off from a UK police force.
Some of the images he personally created depicted children and women in explicit sexual encounters or positions.
At least nine of these women are Guernsey women who he personally knew. Some of their children are also victims – most of whom are still under 16-years-old.
These women and children gave victim impact statements to the court which detailed their deep distress at finding out they had been violated in this way.
One victim wrote that she had been “psychologically raped”.
“Being violated to such a degree by someone I thought I could trust has made me reevaluate my life,” wrote another victim.
One of his adult victims disclosed that having to tell her 13-year-old daughter that she was also a victim “was so emotionally damaging for us both…I don’t know if we’ll ever recover from this”.
“Jonathan Le Tocq makes me sick”
excerpt from a victim impact statement
The images which Le Tocq created included in one family’s case a genuine photograph of a child in their primary school uniform which he downloaded from her mother’s social media account, ‘nudified’, and edited into pornographic images.
This victim told the court through her victim impact statement that “Jonathan Le Tocq makes me sick”.
She further said that “this is especially disturbing because I have known him since I was a young child”.
Crown Advocate Christopher Dunford told the Royal Court that this method of offending has not been seen by the court before.
The creation of ‘deep fake pornographic images’ is not in itself currently illegal in Guernsey he explained, but sending these images made up the telecommunications offences that Le Tocq committed, along with messages made up of indecent text.
“The sexual nature of this messaging with the images makes up the telecommunications charges,” he explained.
The other charges Le Tocq has been sentenced for include one count of distributing an indecent image using the photo sharing platform Flickr, hundreds of occasions where he downloaded indecent images of children (separately to the pseudo-indecent images he created), and the possession of extreme pornographic images.
The offences were committed between November 2016 and July 2025.
Judge Catherine Fooks and a panel of eight Jurats today sentenced Le Tocq to nine years in prison.
At the opening of today’s sentencing, Judge Fooks warned those present that the hearing would include talks of sexual nature that might cause distress.
At the conclusion of today’s court hearing she told Le Tocq that “the offences which you have committed are abhorrent”.
“For every indecent image of a child there is a child harmed, in some cases a local child, a child known to you,” she said.
His defence advocate told the Court that he did not get any sexual gratification from these images, however Judge Fooks made clear that the Court did not believe that.
“You deny that your offending was sexually motivated…we accept it could stem from sexual gratification”.
On his release from prison, Le Tocq will be on an extended sentence licence for two further years.
He must follow notification requirements for five years when released from prison.