Pudsey pervert accessed thousands of indecent child images from his home for four years before being brought to justice

Officers executed a search warrant at Darren Kellett's home after receiving information that an internet provider address linked to the property had been used to access illegal images.

Leeds Crown Court heard a laptop and a hard drive were seized from the property on September 17 last year.

Rukhshanda Hussain, prosecuting, said analysis of the equipment revealed they had been used to download and store illegal images since 2015.

Ms Hussain said thousands of images and movies were recovered.

Officers found 273 category A moving images - the most serious level of offending- before they stopped analysing the rest of the material.

The ages of the children in the images ranged between five and 15.

Kellett, 48, of Crawshaw Road, Pudsey, was interviewed about the offending and initially claimed to have accessed the images by mistake as he searched for adult pornography.

Ms Hussain said Kellett later went on to accept the offending.

He pleaded guilty to 15 counts of making an indecent image of a child.

Sean Smith, mitigating, said Kellett pleaded guilty to the offences at an early stage.

Kellett was given a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.

He was also ordered to complete 25 rehabilitation activity requirement days and do 150 hours of unpaid work.

Kellett was placed on the sex offender register for ten years and was made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order.

Judge Batiste said: "Be under no illusion. If you ever do access child pornography again you will go straight to prison.

"There is no doubt about it."