A FATHER of two who carried on downloading indecent images of children weeks after being spared jail for similar offences is finally behind bars.

David Boddy, 33, was put on a suspended sentence in October last year after police investigating a paedophile ring in London found he had contacted a member of it.

But within weeks Boddy was back online downloading more pictures of child abuse on to his phones, iPad and laptop.

And he also breached the terms of a sexual harm prevention order by deleting the browsing history of his machine, which he was prohibited from doing.

Hannah Squire, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court that police seized his devices in May this year to examine them for more illicit material.

She said the first thing they noticed was that he had deleted the histories on them, but specialist investigators still managed to uncover much of what he had been doing.

Although they only found five images, one in category A, the worst, one in B and three at the lowest level, C, terms he used in search engines were recovered.

The experts also managed to find the websites he had been accessing, which were notorious providers of images of child abuse, she said.

Boddy, of Hatherleigh Court, Park North, admitted three counts of possessing indecent images of children and breaching a sexual harm prevention order.

In October last year he admitted seven counts of possessing indecent images and failing to comply with the notification requirements as a sex offender.

He was caught after making sick online boasts about things he had done to youngsters when he replied to another pervert, later insisting they were all 'fantasies'.

But he was found to have 129 indecent images of children when he was released on bail after admitting his wrongdoing he lied to the police about where he was living.

Gareth James, defending, said the only convictions on his client's record were from last year and he had been doing well with probation.

He said his client realised he was facing a jail term for continuing to offend while on a suspended sentence.

Passing sentence Judge Tim Mousley QC said: "On October 16 last year, having pleaded guilty, you were sentenced in respect of a number of offences involving indecent images of children and you were given a chance on that occasion with the opportunity to attend the Thames Valley Sex Offenders' course.

"You were made subject to a suspended sentence of 10 months, which was suspended until October 2017.

"Within a relatively short period of time you were seeking material on the internet, again, of this kind.

"That is shown by the material found on the internet and history of browsing. It shows you had shown little sign of stopping what you have been doing in the past."

He jailed him for two and a half years, meaning he will have register as a sex offender for life, and reminded him the sexual harm prevention order continued.