Admitted multiple counts of making indecent photographs of children.

A Derbyshire paedophile, Robert Reeve (48), has been jailed for two years and nine months after downloading thousands of horrific images of children being raped.

Reeve was caught with nearly 9,000 indecent images, depicting children as young as a few months old being sexually abused. These images included a very young child being restrained with a gag in her mouth and another child duct taped to a bed in tears.

The court heard that Reeve's home was first raided on November 16, 2020, when police were alerted to his IP address being used to upload indecent images. Despite being arrested and released on bail, Reeve was apprehended again on August 16, 2022, for the same offense. He was arrested a third time on March 8, 2023.

Reeve's barrister stated that her client had accepted responsibility for his actions and was "waking up to the gravity of what he had done." However, Judge Shaun Smith KC condemned Reeve's actions, stating: "What you have admitted to is utterly depraved. I deal with a lot of images cases and none of them in recent times have sunk to the depths of what you were looking at. These really were images of the worst type - these are real children being abused for the satisfaction of people like you."

The judge highlighted Reeve's continued offending despite being investigated by police: "You didn't stop when police were onto you - you were cavalier to say the least. You didn't appear to be bothered, you just did it again with another device. You just carried on."