Locations
Drayton Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22
Description
A Winchester man who had more than 300 indecent images of children on his mobile phone, has been jailed.
Phillip Peach, 35, was arrested at his home address on Drayton Street on 25 June 2024 after police received information that he had been accessing indecent images of children.
Following his arrest, police examined his digital devices where 308 images were recovered with 43 being graded as Category A – the most serious category.
A further 24 were graded as Category B and 241 as Category C.
Peach had served prison time for similar offences and had previously been handed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) by the courts. During the investigation it was found he had breached his SHPO by continuing to communicate with children, deleting data and having electronic devices not registered with police.
He was subsequently charged with three counts of making indecent photographs of children and six counts of breach of a sexual harm prevention order.
Appearing at Winchester Crown Court on 3 March, Peach admitted all of the charges and was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison.