Martin Johnson, 50, who admitted 17 charges against him,
including images involving animals, was caught out after using Skype and
chat room.
Former refuse collector from Denbighshire, who had never been in trouble before, was caught by police using new software, which allowed them to examine peer to peer networks which disguised users and their use of the internet.Johnson, of no fixed abode but who at the time lived at Dyffryn Street in Rhyl, admitted a total of 17 charges including making indecent still images and movies, including ones involving sexual acts between humans and animals, by downloading them from the internet, and possessing them.
Prosecutor David Mainstone said the case involved 1,032 still images and 925 movies between January 2012 and February of this year, many of them of the worst category.He admitted possessing extreme still and movie images involving sexual acts between humans and animals. The court was told he had 583 extreme movies.
Johnson also admitted five charges of distribution of indecent still images which involved girls as young as three either by Skype or through internet chat rooms.
The prosecutor said the defendant had effectively filmed himself exchanging images with other people. If he had not done so it would have been difficult to prove that he had distributed images.
Judge David Hale at Mold Crown Court sentenced him to three years and four months imprisonment, after he was traced under the new system.
He was arrested after his IP address was found by officers on a peer to peer sharing network. When his home was searched, officers found hundreds of images on two laptops.
Johnson was found to have shared some of those images with others via Skype or Internet chat rooms.
The judge said previously people believed that they could use peer to peer systems with very little risk to themselves.
But the new system allowed the police to look into the transfers within peer to peer software.
Prosecutor David Mainstone said the case involved 1,032 still images and 925 movies between January 2012 and February of this year, many of them of the worst category.
He admitted possessing extreme still and movie images involving sexual acts between humans and animals. The court was told he had 583 extreme movies.
Johnson also admitted five charges of distribution of indecent still images which involved girls as young as three either by Skype or through internet chat rooms.
The prosecutor said the defendant had effectively filmed himself exchanging images with other people. If he had not done so it would have been difficult to prove that he had distributed images.
Judge David Hale at Mold Crown Court sentenced him to three years and four months imprisonment, after he was traced under the new system.
He was arrested after his IP address was found by officers on a peer to peer sharing network. When his home was searched, officers found hundreds of images on two laptops.
Johnson was found to have shared some of those images with others via Skype or Internet chat rooms.
The judge said previously people believed that they could use peer to peer systems with very little risk to themselves.
But the new system allowed the police to look into the transfers within peer to peer software.
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