A SOFTWARE engineer was found with 3,600 indecent images of children at his Rose Hill home.

Martin Day, 42, was jailed at Oxford Crown Court yesterday after a police raid uncovered 3,485 still images and 115 videos of girls aged between six and 16.

Prosecutor Nigel Daly said eight of the files were rated at level five, the most depraved type of images, and 89 were at level four.

Ben Newton, defending, said most of the images had not been saved but had been viewed in a web browser and automatically stored in temporary files.

He said of client: “He has developed a taste for younger girls within a legal sense, 16 to 18 ideally, but as time goes on in the privacy of his own house he had overstepped the mark and strayed into areas of the internet he shouldn’t have gone into.”

Mr Newton said Day, who described himself as having “a mild form of obsessive compulsive disorder”, had resigned his job and moved to Birmingham in the wake of his arrest on February 15.

Recorder Richard Hamlin jailed Day for two months and placed him on the sex offender register.

He said: “The sheer number of images shows that once you had been attracted to the dark side of the web you dived deeply into that pool.”