A persistent paedophile who amassed a huge collection of sickening child abuse images has started a long prison sentence today.

Damien Kydd, 34, was caught with a Samsung Note phone in his sock, and two rucksacks, a camera, laptop and drone were seized from his home.

He tried to run before he was arrested on April 10 last year, Teesside Crown Court heard today.

The phone, computer and camera contained 3,161 child abuse images, including 810 at the most serious level, some showing rape.

The horrifying library included 62 hours of videos and some of the vulnerable young victims were babies.

Prosecutor Harry Hadfield gave harrowing descriptions of some of the worst pictures.
He said officers found another 40,293 “ungraded” images on Kydd’s devices.

He added: “There is evidence that this defendant deliberately searched for images portraying child sexual abuse.”
Kydd had not tell police about the devices or provide them for inspection, as he should have done under a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO).

He had also used his foster mother’s details to obtain a £17,000 loan in her name, then spent the money himself.

Kydd, of Raithwaite Close, Guisborough, admitted three charges of making indecent photographs of children, three of breaching the SHPO and one of fraud.

The court was told of his record of 29 crimes, starting with fraud and stealing from an employer in 2008.

He was jailed for two-and-a-half years in 2009 for sexual activity in the presence of a child and making indecent images of children.

He was given a three-and-a-half-year sentence in 2013 and five years in 2015 for having more indecent images of children and breaching his SHPO.
He was locked up for two years in May last year for yet more SHPO breaches – taking a trip to Amsterdam, opening a bank account and having the Note device without telling police, and stealing blank cheques from his mother.
That case saw him recalled to serve the rest of his five-year term from 2015, and further investigations uncovered the latest offences.
Judge Simon Bourne-Arton QC, the Recorder of Middlesbrough, said: “You have a very bad record, Mr Kydd.

“You had clearly a deeply unhealthy interest in children of a very young age.
“And here you are now before me in relation to a large number of images.
“There were 40,000 other images were weren’t categorised. A huge number of images in respect of children.”
Kydd was jailed for six-and-a-half years and given a new indefinite SHPO.