A VIDEO games writer who 'flagrantly' flouted a court order and continued to download images of depraved child sex abuse has been jailed.

Persistent pervert Christopher Capel was first handed a sexual harm prevention order for indecent images offences in 2017.

The 37-year-old of Yarnell's Road, Oxford appeared again at Oxford Crown Court today for breaching that order and having yet more banned images of children.

After admitting two counts of breaching the order and three counts of making indecent images he was sentenced at court this morning.

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Outlining the case, prosecutor Gavin Pottinger said that police went to Capel's home in March 2018 before seizing a number of electronic devices.

On further examination, a collection of indecent images of children was discovered.

These were made up of one in category A - the most severe category, nine in category B and five in category C.

Among the images found, prosecutors said, were photographs of a three-year old boy being abused by an adult woman and indecent images of 13-year-old girls.

Officers later carried out another visit to his address on November 25 last year, where they found three video games consoles.

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Despite denying they were connected to the internet, one of the devices was connected with an 'internet dongle.'

Having internet-capable devices put him in breach of his previously imposed sexual harm prevention order and he later pleaded guilty to the offences.

In mitigation at his sentencing hearing today defence barrister Eiran Reilly said the offending had not been a 'persistent breach' and the images were all downloaded on a single day.

He added that his client - a video games writer for a gaming website - had already spent nearly three months in prison which had had a 'devastating' impact.

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Sentencing, Judge Nigel Daly said: "These were flagrant and deliberate breaches of the order.

"Not only did you flout the order for possession of the devices but you continued to download indecent images of children and searched for such on the internet.

"It's difficult to imagine a more contemptuous breach of an order of this court."

Capel was jailed for 22 months and made subject to a 10-year sexual harm prevention order.