ONE in three of those convicted of possessing child abuse images has also committed other serious sex offences against children, the NSPCC has revealed.

The details have been released following a review of 284 court cases, including at Worcester Crown Court, involving possession of indecent images.

The cases involved a total of nearly 3,000,000 images including hundreds of films and DVDs.

One man had so many child abuse clips put together that he could have watched them for two-and-half days without a break.

In one case an offender pleaded guilty to making or distributing over 500,000 images and another had 6,500 which showed nothing but babies and toddlers under two suffering serious sexual assaults from adults.

Those found guilty of possessing indecent images were aged from 18 to 76 and worked in various areas, including teaching, driving, farming, law enforcement and health.

Four cases dealt with at Worcester Crown Court in August and September last year involved possession of indecent child images and further sex offences.

l David Turner, 23 of Prospect Close, Malvern, was jailed for nine months after police initially found indecent images on his computer before discovering he was filming young girls on his camcorder.

l Sean Tomlinson, 23, of Cherry Orchard Drive, Bromsgrove admitted making indecent pictures of children and one of distributing indecent pictures before being arrested for grooming a girl under the age of 16 for sex. He was given a three- year community order.

l Colin Hoey Brown, 46, of Golden Cross Lane, Bromsgrove was convicted of possessing and distributing hundreds of indecent images of children. At an earlier hearing Brown admitted making indecent photographs of children. He was given a three-and-a-half year jail term.

l Philip Brown, 37, previously of Ox Leasow, Woodgate Valley, Birmingham, was jailed indefinitely for making indecent images of children and then raping a 14-year-old girl in Redditch.

Jon Brown, NSPCC head of strategy and development for sexual abuse said: “There’s no clear evidence to show that looking at these dreadful pictures is going to lead to someone going out and physically assaulting a child. But as we can see a significant number who do possess them also commit other sex crimes.”