A 39-year-old man has been jailed after being caught with more than 60,000 child porn pictures on the computer at his home in Redditch.

The pictures were picked up by an agency monitoring the use of the internet in a periodic trawl for people downloading the images, Worcester Crown Court heard.

Nicolas Cartwright, prosecuting, said Paul Donnelly immediately admitted the offence when police raided his flat in Cofton Close on June 11 last year.

He told them they would find moving and still images on his computer, some involving girls as young as six. He had been convicted of a similar offence in 2003 and had then being given a place in a programme for rehabilitating sex offenders.

He pleaded guilty to downloading 74 moving images at category A, 56 at category B and 97 at category C, the least serious. He also pleaded guilty to downloading 23 still pictures at category A, 209 at category B and 60,000 at category C.

He also admitted having one extreme porn image.

Diljit Bachada defending, said Donnelly had low self esteem and spent a lot of time alone in his flat but he had been working full time since October last year and his confidence had improved. He was also in touch with a private organisation to seek help over his child porn problem.

Judge Robert Juckes, QC, said Donnelly had viewed "particularly abhorrent material". He had been given a chance in 2003 on a programme that was challenging and usually very successful in preventing further offending and the only choice now was a custodial sentence.

"The industry creating these images only exists because people like you want to view them," he told Donnelly.

Donnelly was jailed for eight months on each of the category A charges and six months on the others, to run concurrently, a total of eight months.

He was also ordered to register as a sex offender and given a sexual offences prevention order restricting his use of the internet, both to run for five years.