A PERVERT who had a stash of almost 20,000 internet child porn images is facing jail.

Burnley Crown Court heard how David Mark Worrell, 30, downloaded indecent pictures of youngsters and also distributed almost 50 level three, four and one images, by making them available on a file sharing website.

Worrell, of Carter Street, Burnley, admitted three counts of distributing an indecent image of a child and five charges of making an indecent picture of a child. He admitted downloading 280 photos at level five - the most serious level, 1,500 images at level four, 1,500 pictures at level three, 353 at level two and 15,000 at level one. All the offences took place at Colne, between June 2011 and last October.

The defendant, who had no previous convictions, was bailed until August 13, for a pre-sentence report.