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Pictured: Face of Shropshire paedophile who sought to evade the police

This is a the face of a paedophile who has been jailed for 22 months after he created a virtual computer to hide hundreds of depraved pictures and videos of children, and sex acts with animals.

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Joseph Eccles. Picture: West Mercia Police.

Joseph Eccles, aged 28, of Oswald Place, Oswestry, had breached a 10-year sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) 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.

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