A paedophile had so many indecent images of children on his phones that police stopped counting.<\/p>\n
The images - mainly of girls aged one to 15 - were only discovered after Stuart Roy Kearn, 47, failed to tell police about a new relationship he was having with a woman and that he stayed with her some nights.<\/p>\n
A previous court order obliged him to do so, Caernarfon Crown Court heard.<\/p>\n
Officers swooped and found his two phones with the 1, 279 indecent images and movies on them.<\/p>\n
Kearn, of Bath Road, Wrexham, was found guilty of possessing indecent images of children, and admitted breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and also failing to comply with notification requirements.<\/p>\n
A judge jailed him for a total of three years and four months.<\/p>\n
The prosecution said Kearn and the woman began a relationship and he would stay with her every other evening.<\/p>\n
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But he didnt tell police about his change in circumstances.<\/p>\n
He had been given an 18-month jail term and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) in June 2016.<\/p>\n
Caernarfon Crown Court heard Kearn had only given his new partner a sanitised version of his crimes and had not told her about the SHPO.<\/p>\n
When police arrived at his own home in 2019, they found a black Samsung smartphone - which they knew about - but also a white Samsung smartphone which they didnt.<\/p>\n
Police analysed the devices and found 1,279 indecent images and movies of children.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor said they stopped counting after that but there were many thousands more.<\/p>\n
Andrew Green, defending, said his client has yet to take full responsibility for his actions.<\/p>\n
But he said: The life he was starting to build in a settled relationship, with a woman he was very fond of - that life is now in tatters. That relationship has finished.<\/p>\n
He added: Since his convictions for these offences hes lived in a hotel. Hes back to square one.<\/p>\n
Judge Nicola Jones said there had been a large number of different victims in the images, with some \"in discernible pain\".<\/p>\n
She told Kearn: These are not victimless crimes. Children are abused, raped and tortured.<\/p>\n
She jailed Kearn for two years and six months for possessing indecent images in Category A, the most serious.<\/p>\n
He also got 16 months and four months imprisonment for possessing indecent images of children in Category B and C, respectively. Both those terms are to run concurrently with the main sentence.<\/p>\n
Kearn was jailed for a further ten months for failing to comply with notification requirements - to run consecutively - plus a concurrent, seven-month term behind bars for breaching the SHPO.<\/p>\n
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