A PAEDOPHILE is back behind bars after breaching an order designed to limit his ability to commit sexual offences.

Jason Rees was locked up for 20 months in April 2022 after he was caught with the sickening stash of images – while living a stone’s throw away from a primary school

The 53-year-old was also hit with an indefinite sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) in a bid to stop him from committing such offences again.

But he has been hauled back before the courts and incarcerated again for being in breach of his SHPO.

Rees was admitted two counts of breaching his sexual harm prevention order before magistrates at an earlier hearing, with the case committed to Liverpool Crown Court recently for sentence.

The court heard how the defendant, in Warrington on January 30 this year, was found to have used software which prevents a computer or device from retaining internet use history.

He also used a computer device capable of accessing the internet without the capacity to retain and display internet history.

Both placed him in breach of his SHPO imposed by the same court in 2022.

The court previously heard that officers raided his then-home on Gregory Close in Old Hall after intelligence was received that an IP address was being used there to access child sexual abuse and exploitation material.

Two mobile phones were seized, and a forensic examination uncovered 47,025 indecent images and videos of children.

Of these, 270 were graded category A – the highest category involving child rape – while 160 were category B and 46,602 were category C.

The material was predominantly of young girls aged up to 13 and as young as three.

The court heard that the offences occurred over a period of more than 10 years, while file names on his devices included ‘do it hard’ and ‘daddy’s little girl’.

Software had been installed on the devices to allow anonymous internet browsing, access to the dark web and measures to ensure the user’s activity could not be tracked.

Rees was arrested and admitted downloading the images during his police interview.

His then-barrister commented that his client accepted being ‘addicted to viewing the material, that it is an unhealthy interest and that he gets sexual gratification’.

Before sentencing in 2022, judge Garrett Byrne said: “Every image you viewed represents an abused child, and your possession of them fuels the production of these disgusting images and encourages the vile trade.”

For his SHPO breaches this year, Rees, now of James Lee House, on Brick Street in Warrington town centre, was sentenced to two years immediate imprisonment.