Locations
Moorland Road, Smallthorne, Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6
Description
Pervert Paul Kelly has admitted making two indecent pseudo images of a child. The 61-year-old has already served an eight-month prison sentence in 2018 after admitting three offences of making indecent images of children and possessing a prohibited image.
But he did not learn his lesson and an officer from Staffordshire Police's sex offender management unit found indecent images of a child on his phone when she carried out a routine visit at his home in Moorland Road, Burslem, in September 2022.
North Staffordshire Justice Centre heard that Kelly handed the officer his iPhone 14. She checked it and found two images of a child under 16 with a picture of another girl's face superimposed on to the body.
Paige Morgan, mitigating, asked magistrates to adjourn the case for a pre-sentence report to be prepared on Kelly. She said he has mental health issues and is on antidepressants and unfit for work.
Magistrates sent the case to Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court. Kelly will appear there on a date to be fixed. His bail was extended.