A sex offender jailed last year for having indecent images of children,has now admitted breaching a court order relating to internet access.
Roy Stobbs was sentenced to nine months in prison last August after he was convicted of having such images on his computers for the second time in four years.
At Leeds Crown Court Stobbs, 64 admitted two charges of breaching a sexual offences prevention order and sentence was adjourned for reports until later this month.
He pleaded guilty to using his own computer between January 11 and 18 February this year to access the internet without the monitoring softwear approved by a police review officer being installed, a condition of the order and then secondly accessing the internet between February 18 and March 17 this year.
Stobbs of The Hollow, Meltham, was already a convicted sex offender when he was given a three-year community order at Bradford Crown Court in 2010 for the first time of making and possessing indecent photographs.
But a further 87 indecent images were found when police seized two computers from his home in 2011.
A jury then unanimously found Stobbs guilty last year at Leeds Crown Court on 25 specimen charges of making those indecent images and one of breaching a sexual offences prevention order made in 2010 barring him from accessing such material.
Jailing him last August Judge Robert Bartfield said that in spite of that earlier order he had “continued with this misconduct only a year later.”
He said the jury had not accepted the suggestion that the images were already on the second hand computers and it appeared he had now tried to excuse his actions to a probation officer as research to test if he still had such interests.
“But as you know the law prohibits you from doing this and you have allowed your compulsion to overwhelm your knowledge that you should not be accessing these images. I agree with your counsel you are simply in denial.”
He said some of the delay in the case being heard was due to that denial rather than owning up to what he had done sooner and there now had to be a jail sentence.
The court heard the images found in 2011 were at the lowest level involving partially-clothed and naked children in suggestive poses, some as young as three.
They were found on two second hand computers after routine visits following his 2010 conviction for making indecent images of children and one charge of possessing 6,879 such images. Examination showed internet searches had been made for “nude boy” and other related terms.
Former self employed electrician Stobbs had also used a secure file deletion software programme on one of the computers to “effectively hide the images” said the judge.
Stobbs had a previous conviction for indecent assault on a male under 16 in 1981 for which he received probation.
