A paedophile has been jailed for breaching a court order just hours after he was sentenced by a judge for trying to import a child-like sex doll. 

Kevin Chaffey, of Meryon Road, Alresford, had been slapped with a 24-month suspended sentence at Winchester Crown Court on April 22 after border security intercepted the three-foot £350 doll - which he had ordered from China as he felt 'lonely'. 

He was also found with around 6,000 indecent images, many involving children as young as four or five years old. 

As part of his punishment, the 49-year-old was barred from owning any device which would allow him to access the internet unless he notified the police 24 hours in advance. 

However, during a hearing on Friday, October 21, the court heard Chaffey had secretly bought a mobile phone the same day he was spared prison time.

Prosecuting, James Kellam said Chaffey lied to officers when they visited his home on September 2 to check for the device. But just a few weeks later on September 25, they discovered the Samsung during a property search.

He provided the police with the pin and said any pictures on there were ones "he had already been prosecuted for". An examination of the phone has yet to take place.

Mr Kellam said Chaffey had been before the courts seven times for 20 offences dating back to 1995 when he was charged with indecent exposure. He also spent three months behind bars following two incidents of indecent assault - although the court was told the victims were over 16.

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Mitigating, Mark Florida-James said: "I have represented sex offenders for a long time, and they're unique characters in that they often share the worldview that everyone else is strange for not having the same interests as them. They deny they have a problem. I was refreshed to find that my client admitted he did wrong, knew what was coming, and that he has an illness."

Mr Florida-James further referenced a large gap in his offending - bar when he tried to 'persistently' engage a prostitute in 2003 - as proof that he could obey the law. 

However, sentencing, Judge Susan Evans KC said it was "plainly a deliberate breach of the order" which was aggravated by his "persistence" over the months he hid the phone from the police and previous convictions.

She triggered 20 months of his original sentence and imposed a further eight to run consecutively for the breach, ordering that Chaffey must serve half before being released under a sexual harm prevention order. The relevant surcharge was further imposed.

The Samsung phone is to be forfeited and destroyed.

His guilty plea and desire to engage in treatment programmes were taken into account while imposing the sentence.

PC Gemma Southcott, from the Internet Child Abuse Team, said: "Chaffey is a danger to children and the wider public, and this is further evidenced by his complete disregard for the SHPO imposed by the courts.

"These types of orders are imposed specifically for the purpose of restricting the activities of sex offenders and protecting our communities.

“There are of course individuals such as Chaffey who deliberately ignore what is required of them, and are rightly sent to prison for this.

“We take the management of sex offenders incredibly seriously and invest significant resources into doing so in order to keep the public safe. I hope this case provides reassurance to people of our commitment to monitoring dangerous individuals in the community and ensuring they are dealt with robustly when they don't comply with what is required of them."