June 2014
Exeter paedophile jailed for defying order banning him from surfing the web for images of child abuse
A paedophile has been jailed for defying an order banning him from surfing the internet for pornography and downloading sickening images of child abuse.
Stephen Caventer was subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) after being caught with similar images in 2010.
The order should have stopped him repeating his crime but he used his own laptop and his girlfriend’s computer to seek out images of children as young as two, Exeter Crown Court was told.
Detectives recovered 371 images and five movies but suspected others may have been removed by so-called cleaning software.
Caventer, 54, formerly of Newark Road, Lincoln but now of Smythen Street, Exeter, admitted making and possessing indecent images of children and two counts of breaching his SOPO.
He was jailed for two years and six months by Judge Graham Cottle, who told him the offence was aggravated by Caventer’s persistence and his failure to abide by the terms of the SOPO.
William Hunter, prosecuting, said Caventer had a previous conviction dating back to 2010 when he was found with 133 indecent images while living in Lincoln.
He was made subject of a SOPO which imposed strict controls on his use of the internet and should have enabled police to monitor its use.
Officers received intelligence in 2012 that he had been accessing sites again and his computer was seized when police raided the house in Longbrook Street, Exeter, where he was living with girlfriend Heather Farley.
She also came under suspicion but the charges against her were dropped when Caventer admitted his guilt at the start of his trial.
Mr Hunter said a total of 371 images and five movies showing children of both sexes and all ages were recovered by police.
Adrian Moorhouse, defending, said Caventer should be given credit for admitting his guilt.
