A paedophile has vowed never to use the internet again after being found with more of images of children being abused.
Timothy Byrnes has multiple convictions and was jailed again this week after hundreds more horrendous pictures and videos were found on his laptop.
The 70-year-old was handed three years and two months behind bars at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday after admitting breaching a sexual harm prevention order and further counts of possession of indecent images of children.
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He had a total of 181 Category A images, 102 Category B images and 400 Category C images on a laptop in his home, though they are believed to have originated on an iPod that has never been located.
Liverpool Crown Court heard Byrnes, from Bebington, is desperate to avoid offending again and is determined to stop accessing the internet for the rest of his life. He started offending when he was 59, receiving his first conviction in 2011 before being convicted in 2015 and 2019.
Chris Macmasters, defending, said his client had told him that after this conviction, hiS fourth, he believes his access to the internet forms a key pillar of his offending and he is prepared to stop accessing it to ensure he avoids offending again.
Mr Macmasters told the court: “Through me, Mr Byrnes says this - that he knows this has to stop and that he himself has taken the decision, which the court will hope that he honours, that in order to prevent this happening again he is no longer going to use devices that connect to the internet. He is old enough to remember his life without the internet and when he is released from custody he will live his life without the internet.”
The court heard Byrnes family and close friends were supporting him in the hope that he could “get better” and address his offending when he is released from his prison term.
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