A FLINTSHIRE man has been jailed after he breached a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO).

Tiramet Thangmandee appeared before Wrexham Magistrates Court on Tuesday to be sentenced.

The 26-year-old was handed a custodial sentence and the SHPO in March last year for possessing indecent images.

On that occasion, a court heard his devices were found to have thousands of indecent images of children.

The court heard that during police checks on his devices in February this year, it became apparent that he'd been accessing a picture sharing app - in breach of his conditions.

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Emma Simoes, defending, said: "I appreciate the seriousness of this offence, as does Mr Thangmandee.

"He has a single conviction which gave rise to the order and he's never had the benefit of an order with [probation] interventions."

Addressing questions about 'conflicting' accounts from the defendant about his behaviour, she suggested he may have been "more guarded" when interviewed by police, and less so with probation officers.

Ms Simoes asked the court to consider suspending any term of imprisonment.

Deputy District Judge John Rowan told the defendant the app he had installed on the device was known to police as a method for people interested in indecent images to share such materials.

Summarising the account Thangmandee gave to probation officers about the incident, he said: "You had that app on your device when police checked it and you had not told them.

"You knew, or should have known, that the app had been used by you previously for the downloading and viewing of images.

"You said when you used your email address to access it, you had an account already - I can only assume that was the account you used previously to download indecent images.

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"When you signed in, to your shock - you say, and I am not sure I believe that - a number of images you previously downloaded came onto your device and you felt 'overwhelmed' and didn't know what to do about it."

Deputy District Judge Rowan told the defendant that despite having been in custody preciously and measures put in place to reduce his risk of reoffending, "nothing has worked."

As such, Thangmandee was jailed for six months, which will be followed by post sentence supervision.