A PERVERT jailed for a sick hoard of child pornography has been caught again.
Police officers found hundreds of depraved images and films when they raided Trevor Emmett’s Elland flat just months after his release from prison.
And Judge Robert Bartfield told Bradford Crown Court the most serious categories of child porn possessed by Emmett showed the most depraved images of children being sexually abused in the most vile way.
Now Emmett – described as a man with an addiction to child porn – has been jailed again for downloading indecent images of youngsters.
Det Sgt Mick Ryan, of the Calderdale Safeguarding Unit, said: “This was a very good proactive policing operation by the Calderdale Public Protection Unit to firstly detect and then stop a dangerous offender who poses a significant risk to children.”
Back in July 2009, Emmett was sentenced to nine months for possessing around 14,000 indecent images.
But only a few months after his release officers from the Calderdale Children and Public Protection Unit visited his flat in Ashgrove House and found him in breach of a sexual offences prevention order.
Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday that Emmett had been banned under the order from possessing various electronic devices, but during the search in May 2010 officers seized a laptop computer, three mobile phones and several CDs and DVDs.
Prosecutor Giles Bridge said just over 700 indecent images and movies were found on the computer.
Some of the movies lasted up to nine minutes and Mr Bridge said the youngsters involved were plainly showing signs of considerable distress.
A backlog of work relating to computer analysis meant that Emmett, 37, was on bail as part of the inquiry for a long period of time and in February this year officers again visited his flat.
Mr Bridge said this time police found two cameras and further “naturist” DVDs.
Emmett, who suffers from mild learning difficulties, was remanded in custody in February and yesterday he was jailed for a total of 18 months after he admitted making indecent images of children and two offences of breaching a sexual offences prevention order.
The judge said Emmett had returned to his “addiction to child pornography” and his recent prison sentence had not deterred him.
Judge Bartfield said he had taken account of Emmett’s limited intellect and the fact that he was a vulnerable individual who had suffered a deprived and emotionally difficult childhood.
He said Emmett had also made genuine efforts to try to rid himself of the child porn addiction, but they had not been successful.
In addition to jailing Emmett Judge Bartfield also imposed a new indefinite sexual offences prevention order which limits his use of electronic devices and contact with children under 16.
Emmett will also have to register as a sex offender for the next 10 years.
