A DEPRAVED sex offender was caught by police with a homemade child abuse themed board game under his bed, a court heard.

Paul Emsley, 47, who was once filmed having sex with a 12-year-old boy, was jailed for 20 months yesterday for breaching a lifetime sexual offences prevention order (SOPO).

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Burnley Crown Court heard police visited Emsley’s home on May 10 this year on an unrelated matter, and discovered he had a stash of child porn images, as well as the board game, in which participants pretended to be children and perfomed sex acts on each other.

Officers also found drug paraphernalia in every room and a camera and video-enabled mobile phone, which Emsley was barred from possessing under the terms of his SOPO.

The court heard that the phone was water-damaged, but would have been capable of producing images or videos at some point.

Emsley, formerly of Ingham Street, Padiham, had earlier admitted to breaching his sexual offences prevention order and two charges of making indecent images.

The court heard that the stash of child pornography included 24 images on a CD and seven images on a VHS tape.

The banned images were interspersed with legal homosexual pornography.

Six or seven of the illegal images were classed as category A - the most serious kind - and depicted penetrative sex involving children.

Emsley was first jailed in 1999 for 45 months after he was filmed having sex with a 12-year-old boy.

He then threatened to kill the boy if he told anybody what had happened.

He was jailed again for two-and-a-half years in 2012 for breaching the SOPO, after he was caught downloading hundreds of child porn images at his then-home in Randall Street.

And in 2013 he was fined by magistrates for possession of a video or camera-enabled mobile phone.

Judge Jonathan Gibson sentenced Emsley to eighteen months in prison for one count of making indecent images, and two months for the second count, to run consecutively.

He also revoked the earlier SOPO, and issued Emsley with a fresh order, which prevents him from having any unsupervised contact with a boy under 16-years-old, living in a house with a boy aged under 16-years-old, and possessing a computer or device capable of searching the internet, unless the device is surrended to the police or probation service for inspection, and on the condition that he does not clear the search history on the device.

Judge Gibson said Emsley had 'expressed some insight and some ambition to a future that does not involve the activity that has brought [him] time and time again before the courts.”