A MAN with a pornography fetish for children wearing nappies has narrowly avoided jail.

Police swooped on Andrew Gulliford's home in Abingdon in November 2014 after receiving a tip-off he had been accessing child pornography on the internet.

When officers searched the home in Purslane they found a laptop with 27 indecent images of children - two at the highest category.

Prosecutor Cathy Olliver told Oxford Crown Court yesterday that the 39-year-old admitted sharing images with other paedophiles.

She said: "He said he loves nappies and has a sexual preference for people in nappies, no matter what age.

"He said he prefers three to five year olds."

The court heard Gulliford used the pictures for his own sexual gratification.

Gulliford admitted making and distributing indecent images of children between April and November 2014.

But David Howell, defending, said his client and given a "full and frank" account to police about what happened and was seeking help.

Mr Howell said Gulliford was paying £45 a month for software on his computer to block child pornography and had signed up for a support course.

Judge Ian Pringle said it was a really serious offence that passed the custody threshold.

But he said because Gulliford had shown regret, got new software for his computer and signed up to a support course, he could suspend the sentence.

Gulliford was handed a 16-month prison sentence, suspended for two years with an 18-month supervision order and 180 hours unpaid work.

He was also given a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years and made to sign the sex offenders register.