Locations
Carlton, Borough of Gedling, Nottinghamshire, NG4
Description
A sex offender has been jailed for four years after detectives discovered a large amount of child abuse images at his home.
Philip Cliffe, aged 41, came to the attention of Nottinghamshire Police in October 2023 when his IP address - the unique reference code linking an individual account holder to the internet - was linked to images of child sexual abuse.
Detectives carried out a search at his home address and recovered several electronic devices including a laptop and a memory stick.
Forensic analysis of the devices revealed thousands of images showing the sexual abuse of children - some of them babies.
Around 1,000 of the images were graded as Category A - depicting the most serious abuse that can be perpetrated by adults against children.
Cliffe's devices were also found to contain extreme adult pornographic material.
Cliffe, of Carlton, declined to answer officers' questions in his police interview, but later pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children, possessing a prohibited image of a child, and possessing extreme (adult) pornographic images.
Appearing at Nottinghamshire Crown Court on Friday he was jailed for four years.