A MAN who repeatedly molested a seven-year-old girl has been jailed for almost two years.

Jason Oldacre, who has a history of inappropriate sexual behaviour, indecently touched the girl when he was left alone with her.

After he was arrested police found the 45-year-old had added vile labels to an innocent video he had taken of the youngster, saying what he would like to do to her.

Even then he denied any wrongdoing only admitting it on the morning of a trial at Swindon Crown Court after being told he would not get more than two years.

Jason Taylor, prosecuting, told how the matter came to light after Oldacre was caught stealing underwear from a washing line.

The child's mum told the girl they wouldn't be seeing him anymore and the child replied 'Is that because of the bad things he had been doing to me?'

She then told how on three occasions he had put his hand up her skirt and touched her over her underwear.

After he was arrested the police seized and examined his mobile phone and found he had a video of the child which was essentially innocent.

But he said labels had been added to the footage suggesting he wanted to have sex with the girl and other things he wanted to do to her.

When he was arrested he told police 'I ain't done nothing wrong', and even after the mobile phone footage was put to him he maintained his innocence.

Oldacre, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual assault of a child under 13 in early July last year.

The court heard he had previous convictions for harassment where he sent 'dirty text messages' to females who did not want them.

As a result he had been put on a sex offender programme.

Shortly before the latest offences came to light magistrates imposed an eight-week jail term suspended for two-years for the underwear offences.

Mark Sharman, defending, said his client had an unhappy upbringing, operated at an intellectual level below his years and had never been involved in an intimate relationship with an adult.

Jailing him, Judge Peter Blair QC said: "The behaviour which you finally pleaded guilty to towards this seven-year-old is behaviour that you know was wrong.

"I understand that you have some difficulties with your level of thinking skills and controlling your own behaviour, but this was frightening for a young child. It was unpleasant for her, it was unwanted.

"We hear from her mother that it may be that she has been able, at the moment, to brush it to one side and not dwell on it.

"But we won't know and she won't know until she is an adult as to whether it will have some ongoing effect on her as usually these things do."

As well as jailing Oldacre for 100 weeks he also imposed a sexual harm prevention order restricting his contact with children when he is released. Oldacre must also register as a sex offender for ten years.