A MAN who downloaded more than 500 indecent images of children and breached a sexual harm prevention order has been jailed for 24 months.
When police officers carried out an early morning raid at Dominic Robinson’s home in January, there was a delay before he came to the door.
Police later found two mobile phones which he had thrown out of a window, Ipswich Crown Court heard.
When his phones were examined they were found to contain one indecent image and one video of a child in the most serious level A category, 11 category B images and 542 still indecent images of children and one video in the lowest level C category.
Robinson, 36, of Hunting Gate, Colchester, admitted three offences of making indecent images of children, possessing an extreme pornographic image of a person performing a sex act with an animal, four offences of breaching a sexual harm prevention order and engaging in sexual communication with a child for sexual gratification.
In addition to being jailed he was made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order for 12 years and ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register Steven Dyble for Robinson accepted that a custodial sentence was inevitable.
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