A pervert who tried to import what police believed was a child sex doll has been told he doesn't have to do the unpaid work he was sentenced to.

Former primary school volunteer Ritchie Plumb was told to do 200 hours of community payback for having a collection of films and pictures of child abuse.

But his case has come back before a judge who has scrapped the order and instead told him he must abide by a night time curfew.

And he even extended it to the driveway at the unemployed 37-year-old's home so that he can defrost the car for his wife, who is standing by him.

Plumb, of Derry Park, Minety, will also have to go on a Horizon sex offenders programme as part of the community order.

Judge Robert Pawson told him he would replace the unpaid work with a tagged three month curfew from 7pm to 7am.

Plumb had bought what police believed was a child sex doll from an online retailer which was intercepted by the authorities in December 2017.

Although it was later deemed not illegal to own as it, and the charge relating to it was dropped, officers investigating the case had also seized his computers.

As well as finding numerous indecent images of children they also uncovered Facebook and other conversations about his paedophilia.

Despite Plumb having told a probation officer he wanted to keep the doll he was persuaded to hand it over so it can be destroyed.

The court heard that although the doll was small prosecutors accepted it depicted an adult, not a child, though they were concerned 'It almost certainly was intended to be representative of a child'.

Officers found hundreds of images stored on the machine, many stored in files for quick access.

He said there were four in the worst category, 11 in the middle and 1,963 in band C, the least serious, as well as 11 pseudo images of children.

Chat on Facebook and other media showed him being warned by others about talking about his interest, especially if he was seeking to go through the adoption process.

Plumb pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children and one of possessing prohibited images of children.

He was put on a two year community order with 40 days of rehabilitation activity requirement and 200 hours of unpaid work.

Plumb was also put on a sexual harm prevention order for five years and also told to register as a sex offender for that period.

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