A child sex offender who has previously admitted fantasising about kidnapping, raping and murdering children has been jailed for two years for smuggling child sex abuse books into his accommodation.
Stuart Merry, 45, bought a number of books from a charity shop in April and although he allowed hostel staff to inspect most of them he kept two hidden in a hold-all in a wardrobe, Ipswich Crown Court heard.
Merry, of Norwich Road, Ipswich, admitted breaching a sexual harm prevention order made in 2020 which banned him from possessing or buying material about child sexual abuse.
The court heard that Merry had a number of previous convictions for offences including outraging public decency, gross indecency with a child, indecent assault of a girl under 14 and seven breaches of a sexual harm prevention order and had served several jail terms.
Sentencing him on Monday, Judge Richard Kelly said Merry had deliberately withheld the books in question from staff and had hidden them because he knew he wasn’t allowed to have them.
He said in the past Merry had openly discussed his fantasies of kidnapping, raping and murdering children and had admitted fantasising about children he’d seen while out in the community.
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