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A sex offender who continued to upload indecent images of children has been sentenced.
Peter Stilwell of no fixed address appeared at Chester Crown Court on 7 April to be sentenced after pleading guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children.
These related to 44 category A images of children, six category B images, and 2,051 category C images between 30 September 2023 and 2 February 2025.
The 38-year-old was sentenced to 13 months imprisonment.
Stilwell who was previously given a 12 month suspended sentence for 12 months in May 2023 was recalled to prison on 12 March 2025 after officers from Cheshire Constabulary’s Online Child Abuse Investigation Team (OCAIT) attended his former address in Runcorn following information he had uploaded indecent of images of children from the internet.
Stilwell was also subject to a 10 year Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) and was also in breach of this order.
A number of digital devices were seized to be interrogated by digital forensic specialists, who later discovered thousands of indecent images and videos of children. They stopped at more than 2,000 images with a further 395,555 images and videos uncategorised. The remaining images were dip sampled finding further indecent images of children.
DC Kelsey Lee from the OCAIT team said:
“Stilwell was in clear breach of this SHPO following his similar conviction in 2023 for which he was given a suspended sentence. Despite this and the SHPO he continued his offending and thought he could get away with it. He has been in prison ever since and is now paying the price for his sickening behaviour.”