A convicted paedophile admitted watching videos of naked boys on YouTube just weeks after he was released from prison for sexually abusing a seven-year-old.

Andrew Bayliss had been out of jail for 11 weeks when he contacted his probation officer, saying he’d breached his sexual harm prevention order by using an old phone, laptop and his mum’s smart TV without telling a police officer

The 47-year-old, who has been recalled to prison on licence having been jailed for more than six-and-a-half years in 2015, was given 35 weeks' imprisonment at Oxford Crown Court on Thursday.

Sending him down, Recorder Emily Formby QC said: “You are a high risk sex offender convicted of 27 offences against children as a result of which the sexual harm prevention order was issued. There are six prohibitions on that order and you breached two of those.

“First, being a social media prohibition and the second being accessing, using or in any way having in your possession a device that can access the internet without notifying your public protection officer within three days.”

The court heard Bayliss was released from prison on licence at the end of May. On August 12, he contacted his probation officer and told him he’d accessed YouTube on a mobile phone he’d not registered with the police and had been watching videos of naked boys.

He’d packed his bags ready to leave his bail hostel, saying he didn’t expect to return. In a handwritten note, he said: “Thank you for all your help and kindness. I’m sorry I let you down.”

Mitigating, Flora Page said her client was determined to work with the authorities to manage his behaviour. He was ‘extremely angry with himself’ for breaching the sexual harm prevention order.

She added it was a ‘shame’ that Bayliss wasn’t offered a place on promised support groups upon his release from prison. He received a letter inviting him to the groups the day after he told his probation officer what he’d done.

Bayliss, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to five counts of breaching a sexual harm prevention order.

He has twice been sent to prison for child sex offences. In 2003, he got a four-and-a-half year sentence. A dozen years later, he was sent down for 27 offences, including filming himself abusing a seven year old boy and using the dark web to find and swap child sex abuse images.

On that occasion, in 2015, the court heard he’d amassed a collection of 46,561 indecent images - including 2,300 videos - of boys aged from infancy to 13 years old. The ‘grotesque’ compilation included pictures of children as young as three being tortured and raped.

thisisoxfordshire: Andrew Bayliss' 2015 mugshot Picture: THAMES VALLEY POLICE

Andrew Bayliss' 2015 mugshot Picture: THAMES VALLEY POLICE

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