A CONVICTED sex offender has been jailed again after being found in Caernarfon to be in possession of indecent images of children aged as young as six.

Pryderi Tomos, 35, of no fixed abode, was handed a custodial sentence of three years and seven months, to be followed by a two-year licence period.

He had pleaded guilty, on April 17, to three counts of making indecent photographs of a child.

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Prosecuting, Laura Knightly told the court that, after being convicted of previous sex offences, Tomos was released from a custodial sentence, on licence, on October 12, 2021.

As part of his licence conditions, monitoring software was installed on his mobile phone on February 16, 2022.

The delay between his release from prison and the installation of this software was due to Tomos objecting to it being installed.

Its purpose was to detect any activity on his phone indicating that he had accessed indecent images.

Between 11pm on February 21 and the early hours of February 23, Tomos accessed numerous videos showing girls engaging in sexual activity with adults.

Of those videos, one was 38 minutes in length, while another lasted 54 minutes.

There were various videos which the defendant had accessed more than once.

In total, the software detected Tomos had accessed indecent videos of children on 19 separate occasion in this period of just more than 24 hours.

During the morning of February 23, having received this information from the software, police arrested Tomos at his home address, and two phones were seized.

When interviewed, he denied accessing the videos of children, saying he had watched pornography, but only involving adults.

Examination of the seized phones found 36 category A, 19 category B, and 22 category C indecent images (still and moving).

A further 54 files, indicative of a sexual interest in children, were also discovered.

Tomos, who had four previous convictions for 33 offences, had received an indefinite sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) in 2017.

Ms Knightly added that Tomos had shown a “refusal to engage with services which could prevent this sort of behaviour in the future”.

She labelled him a “dangerous” defendant who poses a “very high risk”.

Defending, John Wyn Williams said that his client is “upset, once again, at having to put himself in this position, knowing full well that the court will have to pass a custodial sentence”.

Tomos has since apologised for his behaviour, Mr Williams said.

He is autistic, and suffers from anxiety and depression, as well as “excessive use of alcohol”.

Mr Williams added that Tomos suffered a traumatic childhood, and is a man “crying out for help”.

Sentencing, Judge Nicola Saffman said that the videos Tomos was found to be in possession of were “depraved”.

She told him: “You are clearly suffering from the effects of autism, anxiety, and depression.

“Be in no doubt that the children in these videos are real children. These are real victims. Their suffering was very real.”

Judge Saffman also ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the phones seized from Tomos, and for him to pay a statutory surcharge upon his release from prison.