A NURSERY worker has been found guilty of showing child porn video clips on her mobile phone to her workmates during a lunch break.

Rachel McAlley showed colleagues the images and laughed when she was told the video was disgusting, Warrington Magistrates' Court heard on Tuesday.

Disgusted witnesses said the clip showed two naked Oriental children, aged around 10, being made to engage in a sex act before the boy was sick over the girl.

McAlley, aged 21, of Old Hall, was employed at Busy Nought to Fives Nursery in Barrowhall Lane, Great Sankey. She is the single mother of a two-year-old child and lives with her parents in Tasman Close.

She was sacked from the nursery and now earns £100 a week working part time for Scottish Power. She is studying to be a beautician.

McAlley appeared tense but composed during the trial. She took notes and, at times, watched the witnesses intently. She blinked rapidly several times at the verdict.

Former work colleague Deborah Price said McAlley passed her the phone in the staff room.

Ms Price told the court: "I just said it was disgusting and passed the phone back. She didn't say anything. She just laughed and I walked out."

Another colleague, Jennifer Blinston, asked McAlley to show her the clip because she thought Ms Price must have been mistaken.

Ms Blinston told the court: "The children were Oriental or Thai. I was absolutely disgusted. I said something along the lines of you are ****ing sick in the head, there's kids on that phone.

"She said yeah' and laughed."

The two staff reported the matter to deputy manager Denise Hardman.

"The children were very distressed," said Ms Hardman. "They were both crying. I felt sick. I said, that's disgusting' and she said, yeah I know', and walked away."

The nursery sacked McAlley and reported her to the police.

PC Rachel Marr arrested McAlley at home around three weeks later. PC Marr told the trial: "She made no response but she was quite shocked that we were on her doorstep."

McAlley had deleted the clip and police phone experts could not retrieve it. McAlley's defence solicitor said the phone size was so small and the witnesses had seen such brief clips that the magistrates could not be sure the clip involved child pornography.

McAlley told the police she was not sure where the clip came from but suggested it either came from a man called Mike' or her ex-partner Christopher Glover. Neither was called as a witness.

She said an ex-colleague, Melissa Furey, had shown theclip around the staff room and that Ms Blinston had taken the phone to look at the clip.

McAlley claimed she watched the clip only once, briefly, and all she saw was someone being sick.

She denied being told there was child porn on the phone and denied laughing at the suggestion.

Louise Santamera, prosecuting, said McAlley had lied through her teeth' and asked why the three prosecution witnesses would have conspired to perjure themselves for no apparent reason.

At one point, McAlley said she had slow reactions' and this might explain why she had seen no more than vomiting.

But Mrs Santamera said: "You showed the clip gladly, happily, willingly and knowingly."

McAlley was found guilty of possessing indecent images of children and showing off an indecent image of children. She will now have to sign the sex offenders' register. She had no previous convictions.

There were no aggravating features in the case and defence barrister, Paulinus Barnes, asked for a conditional discharge.

He said McAlley had lost her good name, and that her career had gone down the drain'.

Sentencing was adjourned for the preparation of reports. The magistrates decided their limited powers were sufficient to deal with the case and did not refer it to the crown court.