Llanon man jailed for indecent images of children

A former bus driver who acted as the DJ at a children’s disco while on police bail during an investigation into child abuse images has been sent to prison.

Dyfed Jones, 35, of Bridge Street, Llanon, Ceredigion, was jailed for 16 months at Swansea Crown Court. He had already admitted six offences before returning to the dock for sentencing.

The offences

The sentence

The judge reduced each term by a third to reflect the guilty pleas. He imposed 12 months for the possession offences and four months for disclosing the intimate photograph, ordering the two to run consecutively – 16 months in total.

Jones was also made subject to a sexual harm prevention order lasting 10 years. He will be on the sex offenders’ register for the same period.

Breaching bail

Samuel Jenkins, prosecuting, told the court that detectives found Jones had broken the terms of his bail while the investigation was under way.

Those terms included restrictions on his contact with children. Despite that, he acted as the DJ at a children’s disco, where he had contact with youngsters.

How the investigation began

The case started in October 2025, when police received a complaint that Jones had passed intimate photographs of a woman he met through Snapchat on to other people. He was arrested and his phone was seized, and he was then released under investigation.

Once that phone had been examined, Jones was arrested for a second time in May 2026, and officers took further devices from his home. He was then released on conditional bail.

What the devices held

A full examination of his devices found more than 750 indecent images, 225 of them in category A, which covers the most serious kinds of sexual abuse. The court was told that some of the category A images on his phone showed children as young as two or three years old being raped.

Investigators also established that Jones had:

• Searched for child abuse material
• Obtained images through the encrypted app Telegram
• Paid $35 to an unknown contact for a folder containing 316 files

Previous convictions

The court heard Jones had been in trouble before. In 2011 he was given a community order for possession of indecent images and causing a female under 16 to engage in sexual activity. His most recent conviction came in 2020, for sending malicious communications.

Defence arguments

Emily Bennett, representing Jones, said her client accepted he has “problematic sexualised behaviour” which needs to be addressed.

She told the court he had previously worked as a bus driver and was now training to become a lorry driver. She suggested that was a driving role which may be “more appropriate” in the circumstances. She added that he has strong backing from his family.

Ms Bennett said Jones had found his three months on remand in prison “nothing short of a serious and uncomfortable shock”. She said he had nonetheless used the time constructively, helping to teach Welsh to other inmates.

The judge’s remarks

Judge Huw Rees said he had read the 19-page pre-sentence report on Jones. He said it was clear its author believes Jones has “returned to his own way”.

Speaking directly to Jones, the judge said an interest in child sexual abuse material drives demand for more images to be produced “to satisfy the unhealthy, lustful, and degenerate demands of people like you”.

He said the children in the images were real children, sexually abused somewhere in the world to feed the “filthy interests” of people like Jones. Sharing and distributing those images online, he said, prolongs their trauma.