A PAEDOPHILE has been locked up after breaching a second chance given to him by the courts.

Mark Jennings was spared jail back in May 2018, with a judge handing him a suspended sentence and community service.

But the 58-year-old has thrown this chance back in the court’s face after again being caught with depraved images of children being sexually abused.

He was subsequently charged with seven counts of making indecent images of children, two counts of possessing such images and two of possessing prohibited images of children.

He also faced two counts of breaching a sexual harm prevention order imposed after his previous conviction and a sole count of failing to comply with his sex offender register requirements.

Jennings admitted all of the offences before Chester Magistrates’ Court, with the case committed to Liverpool Crown Court for sentencing, with the defendant remanded in custody.

The crown court heard how he was ordered to sign the sex offender register and handed his sexual harm prevention order in May 2019.

This came after the authorities found his vile collection of indecent images of children, and he was handed a 12-week imprisonment suspended for 18 months.

Following a check on May 4, 2022, Jennings was found to have possessed more disgusting images of children being abused sexually.

Examples were found across all of the three category ranges, including category A – the most severe grading involving child rape.

Authorities also found prohibited images of children which either concentrate on the genitalia of a child or show a sexual act which either actively involves a child or a child.

Prohibited images cannot be photographs or photos which have been photoshopped. They are therefore sketches, paintings, cartoons or any other unreal ‘depiction’ of a person.

As well as this, Jennings was found to be in possession of extreme pornographic images involving animals, described as ‘grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character’.

The court also heard how the defendant breached his sexual harm prevention order by using a VPN, while he also failed to register his Purplegrape58 username with the police, putting him at odds with his sex offender register obligations.

Taking all into account, a judge sentenced Jennings, of Payne Close in Hood Manor, to 30 months immediate imprisonment.

Cheshire Police refused a request from the Warrington Guardian to release his mugshot.