A 62-year-old paedophile tried to evade the police by hiding his mobile phone containing indecent images of children in his car’s sunroof.
Roy Seymour-Morris from St Bank, Wisbech St Mary was paid a visit to his address by the police on March 27.
The National Crime Agency had informed officers Seymour-Morris’ IP address had been used to upload illicit images of children.
When officers arrived, Seymour-Morris was at the gym but as he pulled up officers noticed him put his hand towards the sunroof.
The phone was seized and found to contain three category A videos, the most severe, and three category C indecent images.
Seymour-Morris was also in breach of one of the conditions of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) handed down after he was convicted of indecent image offences at Guildford Crown Court in April 2018.
He had failed to let officers know of a new phone so they could install monitoring software.
On Thursday (August 3), at Peterborough Crown Court, Seymour-Morris, of Sandbank, Wisbech St Mary, was jailed for one year and eight months, having pleaded guilty to distributing an indecent photograph of a child, breaching a SHPO and two counts of making indecent photographs of a child.
DC Claire Cummings said: “We will do everything within our power to bring sex offenders to justice and protect children from harm.
“Seymour-Morris knew what he was doing was illegal so I am glad he has faced justice.”
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