A Berry Brow man has admitted making thousands of indecent images of children.

Dean Whiteley, of Wain Court, appeared before Kirklees Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

He pleaded guilty to 12 charges of making indecent photographs, two charges of possessing a prohibited image of a child and three charges of distributing an indecent photograph.

The offences took place between January 2010 and March 2015.

The 53-year-old was found with thousands of still images as well as hundreds of movies involving children.

District Judge Michael Fanning told him that the case was serious, given the large volume of images involved and the fact that some of them were in the highest category.

He committed Whiteley for sentencing to Leeds Crown Court on September 8.

Whiteley was ordered to immediately sign the sex offenders’ register.

He is also banned from having any unsupervised contact with a child aged under 16.