A child porn "addict" who downloaded obscene images and who works on the internet has been banned from having a computer at home.

A court heard how David Baglow, 47, claimed he could not stop himself.

Baglow, who runs a business buying and selling stone and has already been jailed for similar behaviour in 2003, was sent to prison for 12 months.

Judge Brian Carter QC, who slammed his habit as "disgusting," made an order prohibiting him from possessing or using a computer at home and said any computer use at work should be for his employment only.

Baglow, of Waterbarn Lane, Stacksteads, admitted 18 charges of making an indecent photo of a child and one count of possessing a photo when he appeared at Burnley Crown Court.

The defendant, who asked for offences to be considered, was put on the Sex Offenders' Register and banned from working with children.

Francis McEntee, prosecuting, said police searched the defendant's home last March and seized a computer with indecent images on it. Two images and one video clipping involved adults having penetrative sex with children.

In December he was arrested and another computer was removed.

Baglow told police both computers were his and claimed he had come across the abusive images while looking for older teenage girls.

Mr McEntee said: "The defendant said this was an activity he felt driven to and he was unable to stop himself."

Baglow had earlier been sent to prison for three months by Rossendale justices after being convicted of eight child porn offences.

The prosecutor told the court it was said the defendant did not see the harm caused by downloading the pictures.

David Pickup, defending, said Baglow, who was single, did accept such activities could cause harm.

His interest was in girls from 14 onwards and not small children.

The defendant was not engaged in internet chatrooms with children, had not sought to meet any youngsters and had not been involved in any grooming.

On the first computer, he had deleted all but one of the images.

Mr Pickup said between Baglow's release from custody in 2003 and his arrest in 2005 he had not looked at any indecent pictures of children but he succumbed to curiosity and temptation The barrister added: "I accept he is at risk of committing further offences of a similar nature.

"However I do not accept the public is at risk of serious harm from this defendant."