Pudsey pervert accessed thousands of indecent child images from his home for four years before being brought to justice

A pervert accessed thousands of depraved sexual images of children for around four years before he was arrested by police.

Officers executed a search warrant at Darren Kellett's home after receiving information that an internet provider address linked to the property had been used to access illegal images.

Leeds Crown Court heard a laptop and a hard drive were seized from the property on September 17 last year.

Rukhshanda Hussain, prosecuting, said analysis of the equipment revealed they had been used to download and store illegal images since 2015.

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Leeds Crown Court

Ms Hussain said thousands of images and movies were recovered.

Officers found 273 category A moving images - the most serious level of offending- before they stopped analysing the rest of the material.

The ages of the children in the images ranged between five and 15.