A DAD-of-five has been found guilty of possessing nearly 1,500 indecent images of children.

Police swooped on the Banbury home of Adrian King in April 2014 and seized a Hewlitt-Packard laptop, Packard Bell laptop and Samsung Galaxy phone.

After investigating the devices officers found 1,494 indecent images of children – 63 at the highest category.

King denied three counts of possessing indecent images of children.

But a jury of nine men and three woman at Oxford Crown Court on Thursday unanimously found the 34-year-old guilty of all the crimes.

The court heard how the father-of-five had 63 Category A images, 945 Category B images and 486 Category C images on laptops kept in the family home between November 2013 and April 2014.

Helen Guest, prosecuting, told the jury on Tuesday there had been specific searches on the device for images of children.

She said: “The defendant had been searching for images of children and the reason the crown says that is because there was evidence of websites having been accessed.

“During his interview he denied all knowledge of indecent images on the device, he had no idea of how they came to be on there. He was at a complete loss.”

Taking to the stand on Wednesday, King, of Beaumont Close, Banbury, denied all knowledge of the pictures and claimed he did not know how they came to be on his laptop.

But he stood shaking his head in shock when the jury delivered their verdicts after an hour and 15 minutes' deliberation following the three day trial.

King was released on conditional bail to return to the same court for sentence on June 30.