A FORMER IT student who lost his sight to a rare eye condition, and then saw it partially return, has confessed to child porn offences for a second time.

Michael Harrison, 22, from Padiham, made national headlines when he lost his sight to Leber’s Optic Neuropathy but vowed to battle the rare genetic condition.

But last May, Harrison, formerly of Badger Close, was caught with a sadistic sex video and bestiality clip, for which he narrowly avoided jail.

Now Harrison is behind bars after being found with two indecent pictures of children while staying in Accrington.

Under the terms of a five-year sexual offences prevention order, he was banned from having an internet-ready mobile phone and digital video recorder, and accessing the web with such devices.

Harrison, now of no fixed address, has pleaded guilty to eight offences and has been remanded to Preston Prison.

He has been committed in custody for a sentencing hearing at Burnley Crown Court on September 14.

The charges he has admitted include two offences of possession of an indecent photograph of a child and two charges of failing to notify a change of address, in Burnley and Accrington, on July 6 and August 4.

He also confessed to four breaches of his sexual offences prevention order.

Harrison was warned, when he appeared in court last year, that he faced a ‘very long’ prison sentence if he tried to download child porn again.

At the time, he was given a 42-week prison sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to take part in a sex offenders programme.

Harrison was struck down by the eye condition in 2005 but that same year he was also given a warning by police over allegations he had indecently assaulted two schoolboys.