Perverted Roy Stobbs is behind bars again for child porn offences.

The Meltham man has been jailed for four months for breaching a court order restricting internet access imposed after he was caught with indecent images of children.

Stobbs, 64, was jailed for nine months last August at Leeds Crown Court after he admitted having the images, which placed him in breach of an earlier Sexual Offences Prevention Order imposed for similar offences in 2010. But again he was caught using the internet.

Simon Waley prosecuting told the same court after his release earlier this year Stobbs was visited on January 11 and the terms of the most recent order were made clear to him.

That included conditions that he must notify the police of his possession of any apparatus capable of connecting to the internet and must not access the internet unless his computer was fitted with monitoring software.

The following month another visit was made to him and during the course of that he disclosed he had used his desktop computer to access the internet describing it as a “technical breach” because the monitoring software had not yet been fitted.

Roy Stobbs, of The Hollow in Meltham.
Roy Stobbs, of The Hollow in Meltham.

He said the library where he had been told he could go to access the internet was too far away and said he had saved his history of what he had used it for and that did not involve anything illegal.

The computer was seized and he was told he would be reported but the following month on March 16 when another visit was made to him he was found to have a tablet device connected to the internet without having notified the police.

Stephen Welford, representing Stobbs, said he had foolishly chosen rather than use the public facilities in a library to use his own computer before the monitoring software was downloaded on to it.

“That was for wholly innocent purposes. He had been subjected to a scam in America into which he had banked £190,000 into property and made contact about that, he browsed newspapers and carried out telephone banking all in breach of the order.”

He said when that was identified in February and his laptop was seized Stobbs was not arrested or bailed. He understood he could use a mobile phone as an internet browser and wrongly assumed the “android device” he had would be the same but was wrong.

Leeds Crown Court

He had limited experience of custody and had spent a short time in the vulnerable prisoner’s unit at Leeds on his last sentence because of his situation. Although his health was poor he provided care for his mother who suffered from Alzheimer’s and she would suffer if he was jailed again.

Stobbs, 64, of The Hollows, Meltham, admitted two breaches of his Sexual Offences Prevention Order.

Jailing him Judge Geoffrey Marson QC said he had a number of convictions in relation to indecent images of children being given a community order in 2010 and the jail term last year for possessing them.