A PERVERT was jailed for more than three years for the possession of 4,800 child abuse images and distributing three indecent videos - one which included a baby.

At Newport Crown Court on Friday, Thomas Williams, aged 29, of Shirenewton, who had 4,802 indecent images of children, pleaded guilty to seven charges, possessing.

He admitted possessing 527 indecent images of children at category A, which is the most explicit, 1,174 indecent images of children at category B and 3,101 indecent images of children at category C, all on May 25, 2014.

He also admitted distributing three indecent moving images of children at category A , and distributing two category C indecent images of children on November 1, 2013.

The court heard that the defendant had been caught as part of an operation by a detective constable from Queensland Police in Australia who disguised herself as a 43-year-old single mother of a 14-year-old girl from Brisbane.

Prosescutor Gareth Jones told the court the officer was using an email account on an Omegle and Skype profile, to which the defendant sent two indecent images of children which were a category C and three videos which were category A, which involved a four-year-old child and one of a baby.

Police traced the IP address to a flat on Lower Dock Street, Newport, and discovered that the defendant had been using the Wi-Fi of the woman in the flat above him.

Police had to gain entry by force into the defendant's flat where they found him attempting to flush a USB stick and memory card down the toilet.

Mr Jones said: “Some items which were recovered were password protected which the defendant said he couldn’t remember part of the password.

"He accepts that he was the one accessing indecent images of children. He stored them on memory sticks.”

Caroline Rees, for Williams, said he was remorseful.

She said: “From his actions he seems to want to change and has tried to change and will take on all work that that is available to him.”

Williams also admitted twice breaching a sexual offences prevention order, by using the internet to distribute indecent images of children, and using the net to access indecent images.

The order was made at Newport Crown Court on February 8, 2011, after Williams was jailed for two years for 18 offences relating to downloading, sharing and the possession of indecent images of children.

Judge Tom Crowther QC, said: “Children’s rights are being abused and some raped to satisfy temptations carried by people like you. Sharing them is part of distribution.

“You then compare yourself to being gay - no consenting sexual relationship or love with a member of the same sex amounts to abuse of a child. Sex between an adult and a child is violence against the child.”

Williams was sentenced to 15 months for possession of 527 category A indecent images, 12 months for possession of 1,173 category B indecent images, 9 months for the possession of 3,101 category C indecent images, 18 months for distributing two indecent images of category C, which will all run concurrently.

He received two and a half years for the distribution of three category A videos, and eight months for breaching a sexual offences prevention order. The sentences will run consecutively.

Williams was given another six months for the second sexual offences prevention order breach, to run concurrently.

He was jailed for a total of 38 months.