Ron Brierley’s fall from corporate titan to child porn offender was writ large on Friday as a court heard the 84 -year-old was now a social pariah whose name had been “scrubbed” from buildings.

Brierley faced a NSW District Court sentencing hearing in which his lawyer detailed a “significant affliction” that attracted him to child images, but said he should not be jailed because it was “low-level offending”.