A 37-YEAR-OLD man was caught with obscene indecent images of children on his laptop having already been jailed for a similar offence.

Slawomir Drelich, of Cherry Tree Close, Southmoor, near Abingdon, was handed a six-month jail term suspended for two years after admitting making indecent images of children on or before March 8, 2014.

His sentencing at Oxford Crown Court on Tuesday came just three years after he was released from prison for admitting 22 counts of the same offence between 2005 and 2009.

Prosecutor John Law said the defendant served 10 months in prison after admitting 22 counts of making indecent images of children on August 20, 2010.

He said a police officer saw indecent images on Drelich’s laptop on January 22, 2014, after it was fitted with monitoring equipment following his release from prison.

Mr Law said the defendant told officers during interview the images were pop-ups that appeared when he was looking at adult sites.

Defence barrister Timothy Boswell said Drelich did not receive any treatment while in prison and only a “low number” of images were accessed by officers.

Sentencing, Judge Zoe Smith said: “It would seem that now you have some insight into the problem that you have and that you wish to seek treatment in order to deal with it.”

Drelich was also made subject to a two-year supervision requirement and ordered to take part in an internet sex offenders treatment programme and made subject to a new 10-year sexual harm prevention order. He will also have to sign the sex offenders’ register for life, and pay £500 costs and an £80 victim surcharge.