Jailed again: Paedophile hid images of children with animals while under police monitoring
A paedophile who created a virtual computer to hide hundreds of depraved pictures and videos of children and sex acts with animals has been jailed for 22 months.
Joseph Eccles, aged 28, of Oswald Place, Oswestry, had breached a 10-year sexual harm prevention order imposed on him in 2017 after he had been jailed for 28 months as a 19-year-old for seven offences.
He had been convicted of "some contact offending" when he was a teenager, the court heard.
After sentencing Eccles to 10 months in total for a number of offences involving hundreds of images and videos of indecency, bestiality, and extreme pornography, a crown court judge told him that he regarded the breach of the SHPO as "particularly serious".
He had breached it while under a police investigation into his USBs, two phones and two personal computers, which will be kept from him.
Many of the images were judged to be in the most serious category, and he made them inaccessible on phones and computer systems.
The court was told that some of the material he used included a girl aged two to four years old and a five to seven-year-old girl involved in sexual activity with a dog.
He had used technology to try to hide his activities including on Telegram and Twitter, even during an 18-month police investigation
