A former Job Centre worker who was spared jail for sharing images of child abuse has again walked free from court.

Alexander Field was put on a sexual offences prevention order which banned him from wiping the history of his internet devices.

But the 38-year-old, who is on a suspended sentence, was caught deleting the evidence of the sites he had been visiting.

Field, of Highworth Road, South Marston, pleaded guilty to breaching a sexual offences prevention order in April last year.

He was put on a 16 month jail term suspended for two years in December 2016 for possessing and sharing indecent images of children.

David Maunder, defending, said his client could not explain why he had done it as analysis showed the sites he had visited all appeared quite innocent.

He is working for an electronic component broker in Berkshire earning good money, he said, and was able to restart his life.

His marriage is in the process of being annulled after the pair found they were sexually incompatible and he had a new partner, he said.

He also has a problem with alcohol, he said, which he is seeking to tackle and is paying for therapy for his issues.

Recorder Michael Vere-Hodge QC said "I find it difficult to accept what is urged that this was a technical breach of your sexual offences prevention order.

"You knew perfectly well that you were not allowed to delete the internet history on your phone. You were warned about it and you did it again.

"Quite what was on there: it is difficult in the first occasion to reconstruct. The second occasion it is difficult to understand why you did it.

"It may be that some of the apparent deletions have a sore sexual nature than their description.

"The SOPO remains for 10 years, from 2016, so that is a long period of time where your internet use is monitored.

"The fact that you are in breach of that order also means that you are in breach of your suspended sentence that was imposed and remains to December of this year.

"You are in employment, that all stands you in good stead. Looking at a complex situation that you present the court with, what I should do is that I can just avoid sending you in to prison for breach of the suspended sentence.

"If there is any further breach of the SOPO after the suspended sentence has expired then another judge on another occasion may take a completely different view of this."

He imposed a 12 month community order with 15 days of rehabilitation activity requirement and 50 hours of unpaid work.