Ian Dolby 59

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A former Lincolnshire councillor who was jailed for downloading images of child abuse has appeared in court again after breaching his sexual harm prevention order.

Ian Dolby, of North Road Sleaford, had been jailed for two years in August 2017 after admitting to downloading images of children.

The 55-year-old pleaded guilty to 23 charges of making an indecent image of a child on the second day of his trial after police found 700 computer discs at his home in Sleaford.

Dolby was placed on the sex register for 10 years and given a sexual harm prevention order to control his behaviour when released.

Now he has appeared in court again after breaching his sexual harm prevention order.

The former Sleaford Town Councillor refused to hand over a device capable of accessing the internet for inspection when he was asked to by the authorities on August 29, last year.

The former councillor appeared at Lincoln Magistrates' Court on December 12, last year, where he pleaded guilty to the offence.

Dolby was fined 150 and ordered to pay a 32 surcharge to fund victim's services and 85 in costs by magistrates.

At his original trial in 2017, the court was told police found a stash of more than 700 computer disks containing pornography in Dolby's bedroom as part of their inquiries after officers arrested his lodger for an unrelated matter.

Of these, 45 disks contained child pornography, including more than 500 movies lasting 184 hours. These had been downloaded between 2010 and 2013.

Mark Knowles, mitigating for Dolby, said 90 per cent of the material found in his home had been adult pornography and that he had an obsessive personality.

"He understands that he has a problem," he said. "He is desperate to get to the bottom of his difficulties.

"He is very much a loner who spends the majority of his free time in his room on his computer."

Sending Dolby to prison, Judge Simon Hirst had said: "You have done everything you possibly could to avoid facing up to your wrong doing.

"This type of offending is not victimless in any way. Every still photograph and every frame of a film has the face of a child who has been sexually abused in the most cruel way imaginable.

"In behaving as you did, you perpetuated the market and distribution of such images and encouraged the making of more images."