Cwmbran Paedophile Jailed For Breaching Court Order

A convicted paedophile has been jailed after secretly purchasing a laptop and setting up an internet router without informing police – breaching the terms of his suspended sentence. 📱⚖️

Richard Taylor, 61, of Pontnewydd Walk, Cwmbran, was originally convicted in August 2024 after police found thousands of indecent images and films of children being sexually abused – including victims as young as six years old.

Newport Crown Court heard that Taylor’s collection included videos and pictures of children being raped by adults as well as victims being sexually assaulted by other children.

The police charged Taylor with having 2,608 category A, B and C indecent images of children, 182 prohibited indecent images of children and possessing extreme adult pornographic images.

In August 2024, Judge Eugene Egan sentenced Taylor to 14 months imprisonment, suspended for 18 months. Taylor was ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years and was made subject to a 10-year sexual harm prevention order.

However, in December 2024, Taylor secretly purchased a laptop and set up an internet router without informing police. When officers discovered the breaches, Taylor claimed to not remember his passwords, preventing officers from searching the devices.

It was also found that Taylor had been using the new device with a VPN to make it appear he was searching the internet from America.

Taylor’s defence barrister Andrew Davies attempted to downplay the defendant’s intentions by describing the acts as “technical breaches.”

But Judge Daniel Williams disagreed, saying what he did was a “deliberate attempt to circumvent the terms of his sexual harm prevention order.”

Judge Williams sentenced Taylor to 20 months imprisonment and ordered him to pay the statutory victim surcharge. Taylor will serve half of this sentence in custody with the remainder served on licence.