Gloucester man jailed for making thousands of indecent images of children
71 year old Phillip Wood has been handed three years in prison
Last updated 29th Oct 2024
A man from Gloucester has been jailed after he pleaded guilty to making tens of thousands of indecent images of children.
71 year old Phillip Wood from Westgate Street was charged with eight counts of making indecent images of children and nine counts of breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Wood is a registered sex offender and previously appeared in court in 2020 in relation to a string of sexual offences and was handed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order which he has breeched numerous times.
As part of the order Wood was not allowed to own any electronic devices such as a mobile phone or laptop without first declaring it to the police and offering them for inspection.
On a number of police visits between August 2023 and May 2024 police found undeclared electronics that contained indecent images of children.
Across the devices police found over 134,172 indecent images of children as well as over 150 hours of video footage.
At a hearing in August he told the court that he had a ‘thrill of the forbidden’ and that he had attended previous rehabilitation courses which had not had the desired effect.
Wood has been sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for each of the 9 counts of breaching his Sexual Harm Prevention Order, he also received three years for making Category A indecent images of children, two years for making Category B images and 12 months for making Category C images.
The sentences are to run concurrently and he has been placed on the sex offenders register for life.
Detective Constable Martin Hayward from Gloucestershire Police said “Making indecent images of children is child sexual abuse, and perpetrators have harmed children by creating this material.”
"We are determined to protecting those who are most vulnerable in our society from dangerous offenders”