A father and son are facing jail after the police searched their home to find a huge stash of animated child abuse images and a vile video game.

Yuen Ho Ng, 30, downloaded more than 500 "hentai" images of minors and a game, translated as ‘The mystery of the underage girl’, in which the user rapes children.

Hentai is an animated Japanese form of pornography.

Appearing at Maidstone Magistrates’ Court on Friday, Ng junior, who now lives in Laburnum Road, Strood with his father, admitted possessing the prohibited material.

Prosecutor Sarah Worsley told magistrates how, acting on intelligence, police searched the home of his 60-year-old father Eric Wai Keung Ng in Coltsfoot Drive, Grove Green, in May.

They seized hard drives belonging to Ng senior and found more than 7,000 indecent images of minors which had been downloaded over five years. He also had four movies of women having sex with dogs.

The material ranged in severity between categories A, at the highest end of the scale, and C. Ng senior told officers he had obtained it by searching for ‘pre-teen’ and ‘hardcore’.

When questioned he insisted he did not know by downloading the images he was sharing them with other people but as a result of doing so he was charged with seven counts of making indecent images of children.

He was also charged with possessing bestiality films and admitted all the offences.

During the same search police also found Ng junior’s illegal material.

The court heard in his case there are no sentencing guidelines as only six people have been convicted of the offence in the UK, with an appeal against an 18-month jail term thrown out last year. As the images were animated they are not indecent but are classed as prohibited.

Both defendants were released on conditional bail not to have sole use of any technology with access to the internet with the exception of gaming consoles, not to use mobile phones unless provided by their employers and not to have unsupervised contact with children.

They will next appear at Maidstone Crown Court pending pre-sentence reports.