POLICE officers discovered indecent images of young children on a man’s iPhone when he was already under a community order for similar offences.

Leeds Crown Court heard yesterday that West Yorkshire Police had received information that a person using the name 'Frosty Jack' was showing indecent images, and that was traced back to an account in the name of Stephen Lee.

An iPhone and charger were seized from his address on October 16 last year and when the phone was analysed, 86 indecent images were discovered.

Joanne Shepherd, prosecuting, said that included 18 at the most serious level Category A, 30 at Category B and 38 at Category C. Children depicted included toddlers as young as 18 months.

On September 16, 2013, at the same court, she said Lee was given a three year community order with an activity requirement and supervision for 11 offences of possessing indecent images and two of distributing such images.

He was also made the subject of a Sexual Prevention Order banning him from accessing pictures of children under 16 without their parent or adult’s permission, save for inadvertent possession in newspapers or magazines.

When Lee was arrested and interviewed following the latest offences he admitted trading images with others using the name 'Frosty Jack'.

He said he would gain sexual pleasure from looking at the images and while chatting to others. He said he was "weak-willed" and could not resist temptation.

Joanna Hastie, representing Lee, said he was due to go on the sex offender treatment programme as part of his previous sentence but there was an 18 month waiting list and he had not begun it before the latest offences happened.

"He fully accepts he needs treatment and wants to comply with it," she said.

He had now begun the programme and been open and honest about "his level of compulsion."

"He is genuine about wanting to make permanent changes in his behaviour," she added.

She urged the court to allow him to continue his rehabilitation.

Lee, 42 of Peel House, Crosley Wood Road, Bingley, admitted three offences of making indecent images, three of possessing indecent images and breaching a sexual offences prevention order.

Jailing him for two years, Judge Tom Bayliss QC said “This is not a case where you were unaware of the consequences of your offending, you were fully aware.”

He said in spite of the seriousness of the distribution charges in 2013, Lee had been given a chance to remain in the community only to commit further offences.

"It is right to say and I take it into account that the programme had not started, that was not your fault but you had been given a chance by the court and you deliberately spurned that chance," he said.

The latest images included serious sexual activity between adults and very young children.

"People like you who by your perverted sexual appetite fuel the sexual abuse of such children should be aware the courts will do everything in their power to prevent the commission of these offences," the judge added.

He ordered Lee to register as a sex offender for ten years and imposed a further Sexual Harm Prevention order for ten years.