A FORMER assistant referee in football’s Premier League downloaded child porn photographs from the internet after accessing chatrooms.

Steven Dorr communicated with under-age boys online and through that activity obtained details of one vile website, Worcester Crown Court heard.

Police who seized two of his computers recovered 105 images which included sex scenes between children and adults.

Some images were deliberately downloaded and others may have been stored without his knowledge after he browsed the internet, said Andrew Wallace, prosecuting.

Dorr, an ex-chairman of Worcester Referees Society and a former committee member for Old Elizabethans cricket club, first came to police attention while teaching at a language college.

Mr Wallace said a 15-year-old Spanish boy complained about an approach – but no prosecution followed.

Another associate, who was also 15 when Dorr met him through a chatroom five years ago, pleaded guilty to similar child porn offences in September last year and was sentenced to a three-year community order.

Mr Wallace said there were concerns over Dorr’s “interest in communicating with boys”.

He asked Judge Daniel Pearce-Higgins QC to ban him by a court order from having a computer at his home. The judge commented: “He appears to be unable to exercise restraint.

“A home computer means he is always subject to temptation.”

But he decided not to impose a computer ban after hearing that 39-year-od Dorr, of Worcester, would be unable to work as a self-employed accountant without one.

He gave Dorr a three-year community order and told him to pay £1,000 prosecution costs.

Dorr, who pleaded guilty to 10 counts of making and possessing indecent photographs of children, must also sign the sex offenders’ register for five years.

He was banned from working or associating with children under the age of 17 by a Sexual Offences Prevention Order.

Mr Wallace said the seized images included porn movie clips and one photograph was an example of the worst level of depravity. They were downloaded over four days in 2005.

Defence counsel Rupert Bowers said Dorr needed internet access because of keeping up with fast-changing tax and VAT laws in his job. In 2007 his home was again raided by police who found no child images on a third computer.