Police were notified after customers at The Humber raised the alarm
Alan Moore was jailed at Hull Crown Court(Image: Humberside Police)
Customers at a bar raised the alarm when they spotted a paedophile looking at videos of children on his laptop. Alan Moore had not notified police that he had a new device and he had deleted the footage when he was arrested, Hull Crown Court heard.
Moore, 67, of Perth Street West, Hull, admitted a string of offences, including three of possessing indecent images of children, three of making indecent images of children and breaching a sexual harm prevention order. He admitted two further breaches of the order.
Holly Clegg, prosecuting, said that Moore had been convicted of similar offences at Chelmsford Crown Court in 2013. He was convicted again at Knaresborough Crown Court in 2023 of making indecent images of children, when he was placed on the sex offenders’ register for life.
The following year, he admitted failing to register with police the new devices that he bought, a Nokia phone and two laptops. In September that year, he confirmed that he wanted to travel abroad.
But he had not notified police that he had a new passport, which was another condition of the sex offenders register. Moore downloaded indecent images of children onto a laptop and he was discovered to have 350 in the most serious category of images. There were also 372 of a medium category and 1,370 of a lesser category. The children shown ranged from babies and toddlers to young teenage girls.
They were kept in computer folders marked “Cuties 1 and 2 and Cuties Specials”. A condition of his court order was that he was not allowed to delete footage from his laptop.
But at The Humber pub in Hull, customers saw him looking at footage of children on his laptop. Police were notified. He also admitted to police that he had a phone that he had not registered.
David Godfrey, mitigating, said that Moore wanted to “wipe the slate clean” and he was “deeply ashamed and remorseful.” Recorder Taryn Turner told Moore that he had “a long history of sex offending”, with 12 offences all related to sex offences.
She said the “flagrant breach of court orders was troubling”. Moore was jailed for three-and-a-half years.
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