A PEVERT who had more than 10,000 indecent images of children - many of them aged under 10 - is behind bars facing a long jail term.

Convicted child sex offender Stuart Bulling, 39, admitted 10 allegations of making an indecent image of a child and four charges of possessing an indecent image of a child, at Burnley Crown Court.

Bulling, of Hobson Street, Rawtenstall, has previously served a three year jail term, with an extended prison licence, after he sexually assaulted two drunken 14-year-olds.

He also took photographs of them in the process and also snapped little girls as young as eight showing their underwear.

When police raided the bedroom of his Rossendale home, where he lived with his mother and brother, they found thousands of “highly disturbing”, obscene images and videos taken from the Internet, and a “bizarre” haul including youngsters’ hair and socks, Burnley Crown Court heard.

Bulling was banned from being in the company of children under 16 unless accompanied by an adult over 21, disqualified from working with children and was ordered not to have any youngsters under 16 in his bedroom. He was also placed on the sex offenders’ register for life.

Lawyers representing Bulling, when he was jailed at Burnley Crown Court in 2003, after admitting a string of indecent assault and child porn offences, claimed their client was adamant he would not reoffend.

But a raft of new charges were laid against him this year after his married brother found a huge stash of child porn at his Hobson Street home and alerted the police.

Sentencing on Bulling was adjourned until December 1 and the defendant was remanded in custody.

The court was told a pre-sentence report would be ordered and would include a short report from Bulling’s doctor.

Judge Simon Newell warned the defendant: “You know full well there is every likelihood, higher than that, of a custodial sentence of some length.”