A failed image consultant's "mighty fall" from grace is complete after he was locked up for "depraved" child abuse material crimes.
Bradley Payne-Moore, 32, has been attacked with hot wax in a nightclub and threatened by anonymous people over the phone since it was revealed police had caught him in possession of a horrific video showing the rape and murder of a young girl.
His punishment continued on Friday afternoon when Justice Chrissa Loukas-Karlsson sentenced him to 15 months in jail.
The ACT Supreme Court judge ordered that the balance of the term be suspended after four months.
Payne-Moore was once well-known in Canberra's business community through his company, Guardian Gent, giving speeches and advising men on topics like style and grooming.
But the venture failed, precipitating what defence lawyer Andrew Fraser called a "mighty fall", after news outlets reported Payne-Moore had kept 137 files of child abuse material on his devices.
Two of the images were sitting in plain view on the 32-year-old's computer desktop as police raided his Watson home last year, when he told officers he had "a masturbation problem which has been ongoing for 15 years".
Payne-Moore also said he would use Facebook Messenger to send himself child abuse material, and admitted he had started "watching younger people" when he joined a group chat on Kik.
He pleaded guilty last year to possessing the child abuse material found on his phone and hard drives, including the so-called "snuff film" of the young girl's killing.
Payne-Moore further admitted to accessing seven child abuse material files, including one named "St Petersburg".
Sentencing the man on Friday, Justice Loukas-Karlsson said she had "unfortunately" had to look at samples of the material.
"You must understand that children are abused to produce these images, to produce what is depraved material," she told Payne-Moore.
The judge said Payne-Moore, an amateur strongman and former chef, had experienced a rough start in life, having been homeless for a period in his youth.
"That is no excuse for these offences," she said, noting Payne-Moore's actions helped fuel the market for child abuse material.
"There is no choice in this case but to impose full-time imprisonment."
Payne-Moore, who was ordered to forfeit three electronic devices to the Commonwealth, will be released from custody in October.
He will then be subject to a two-year recognisance release order.
