2025-12-19
'We must do better': judge notes young men from good families with no priors being jailed for sexual offences
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: The judge said that McLaughlin had accessed pornography from a young age and that "pornography may be freely accessible, but it comes with a heavy price of jail." Ms Justice Ring sentenced McLaughlin to two and a half years in prison but suspended the final 18 months for one year.