POLICE who carried out a compliance visit on a convicted sex offender uncovered a raft of offences.

Blackburn magistrates heard Callum Neil Cox was not living at his registered address and when police caught up with him he failed to present internet enabled devices as required by a sexual harm prevention order.

He had also failed to inform the police of other names used on the internet, had stayed at an address where a person under the age of 18 lived and had Tor and Duck Duck Go browser applications which had no internet history.

Cox, 21, of The Grove, Accrington, pleaded guilty to four breaches of a sexual harm prevention order. He was remanded on bail for the preparation of a pre-sentence report.

Laura Peers, prosecuting, said officers went to the defendant's registered address to carry out a compliance visit. They were told he was at his parents' address which wasn't registered with the police. He failed to reveal a number of devices.

Jonathan Taylor, defending, said his client did not take issue with the prosecution version of events but said some of the devices were not in regular use and others were actually broken.

"He accepts he should have made the police aware that he sometimes stayed at the address," said Mr Taylor.

"There is mitigation but it has to be conceded there were a number of offences.

"He wasn't deliberately trying to evade detection but he has been careless in relation to these devices."