JAILED: Pervert who had 5,000 images of children including eight-month-old babies
The sickening child porn shame of a Black Country man has been revealed after a court heard how he downloaded more than 5,000 indecent films and photographs of children including eight-month-old babies for his own sexual gratification.
Brett Clewes also targeted two women he knew to take indecent photographs and took another up the skirt of a young girl in Stourbridge town centre.
Recorder Abigail Nixon told the 43-year-old - described as being a "socially inept" man with few friends: "Without sexually depraved people like you there would be no demand for these indecent images."
She said he was clearly someone with "perverted sexual tastes" adding: "Women of all ages are at risk from your perverted needs.
"It is clear your tastes range from babies to children of almost adult age. You were not doing it at one dark night in your life."
Ms Nixon told Wolverhampton Crown Court that for nearly nine years until he was finally arrested by police and she stressed she was convinced it would have continued had he not been tracked down by police.
Clewes, a man of previous good character, of Finchfield Close, Stourbridge admitted seven charges of making indecent images of children and one of taking an indecent photograph of a child.
He further admitted recording a person in a private act and four charges of possessing indecent photographs.
Christopher O'Gorman, prosecuting, said that intelligence was received by police about Clewes using a website based in Russia which was used by people with a sexual interest in children.
People using the site were making comments about their shared interest in paedophilia and when officers went to Clewes home they seized his computer equipment which ;was found to contain the indecent images.
Defence barrister Nicholas Berry told the court that Clewes, who was also made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order until further notice, had already taken major steps to resolve his problems.
Mr Berry said: "He has demonstrated since his arrest conduct to address his offending behaviour. From the early stages he recognised he has a serious problem."
Mr Berry told Wolverhampton Crown Court that Clewes became socially introvert. He said: "Computers and temptation followed and they came to dominate him. It was then his perverted interest surfaced."
Clewes was jailed for 30 months and told he must register as a sex offender for the next ten years.
