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A man who was put on the sex offenders' register by the Royal Court in 2012 has admitted breaching his restrictions by making 45,787 indecent images of children.
42-year-old Jeremy Thomas Bourke appeared in the Royal Court on Friday, accused of four counts of making the images of children under the age of 16 between July 2011 and September 2017.
The images – which include 103 at the most serious level – were kept on a number of storage devices including a PlayStation 4 game console.
Defending, Advocate Adam Clarke, put forward guilty pleas for all four counts, as well as two counts of breaching the sex offender restraining orders that was imposed by the Royal Court on 9 November 2012, as Bourke was in possession of software which conceals the user’s internet activity, and for not handing over a device that contained 42,231 of the indecent images of children to Police Officers on 20 September 2017.
Bourke has been remanded in custody and will be sentenced by the Royal Court on 23 July 2018.
The Bailiff, Sir William Bailhache, who was presiding over the Royal Court also heard a separate case involving making indecent images of children.
33-year-old Nathan Thomas John Jordan, from Leicester, pleaded guilty to possessing four indecent images of children, two at level three and two at level four - the second most serious level - on a Dell laptop between 16 December 2011 and 29 August 2012.
Jordan has been remanded in custody as the Solicitor General, Mark Temple, explained there was a risk he would leave the island as he does not live in Jersey.
Defence Advocate Christine Hall did not dispute this, but requested the time Jordan has served in custody will be acknowledged by the Royal Court when he is sentenced on 22 June 2018.
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