A PAEDOPHILE serving an indeterminate sentence has been caught accessing child pornography while on day release.

Simon Found was handed an indeterminate sentence, which is a sentence without a set release date, in 2007 for child pornography offences with a minimum of 42 months to serve.

He was also made subject to an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO).

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However, after almost 17 years, Found remains in HMP The Verne in Dorset.

Despite the sentence, the 37-year-old was often granted day release and while visiting his parents in Oxfordshire, Found breached his SHPO by purchasing a phone and accessing indecent images.

He was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Thursday (January 18) to 12 months in prison, although Judge Michael Gledhill noted it ‘means very little’ due to the indeterminate sentence.

Opening the case, barrister Phillip Sutton explained that while on day release in early 2020, Found had purchased an iPhone and hid it in his parent’s Oxfordshire home.

A year later on another day release, police visited the premises to check on Found and found a piece of paper with a name on it of somebody known to the force for being involved in child sex offences.

When Found returned to the property, he admitted he had the phone.

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The device was seized and on it police found 14 Category C indecent photographs of children on it.

There were also references on the phone to another man known to police to be involved in child pornography.

“He’s obviously used it in whatever way including the downloading of Category C images,” said Mr Sutton.

“He was out on release for a period of time and it was used in this way and it was not used for the enquiring of employment for example.”

Sentencing Found, Judge Gledhill said: “I’m not going to lecture you about these offences you have committed.

“What on earth am I supposed to do with you? You’ve been returned to prison on licence and no one knows when you will be released on licence.”

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Found was handed a 12-month sentence for breaching his SHPO and 28 days concurrent for the possession of the indecent images.

There were no orders for costs, court or victim surcharge, due to Found’s sentence. An order was made for the phone to be forfeited.

Indeterminate sentences was abolished by the Government in 2012 but not for existing prisoners subject to them meaning thousands of people are still subject to such a sentence and remain in prisons across the UK.