Kaighin begins prison sentence

Former Peel Commissioner Arran Kaighin has begun a ten-month prison sentence.

The 44-year-old last year pleaded guilty to possessing indecent images of children, and was sentenced by Deemster Montgomerie at Douglas courthouse yesterday.

Kaighin will not spend much longer in prison, though, because of the time he has already served on remand.

He has also been placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for seven years.

Kaighin went missing in August last year, sparking a search for him by emergency services and Peel residents.

He was found hiding out in a building at Knockaloe farm by workmen, four days after he'd disappeared.

They then alerted the police.

Kaighin had cut himself, and was taken to hospital, but the wounds were not serious.

His left arm was bandaged from wrist to elbow when he made a court appearance from Jurby prison via video link a week later.