A pervert had a DVD showing two women performing a sex act with a dog when police visited his home to see if he was sticking to the conditions of a sexual harm prevention order.

Police went to Roland Symmons’ home in Maidstone unannounced to check if he was abiding by the terms laid out in his court order which he had been given 18 years ago.

Symmons was previously jailed for 15 months in 2005 for possessing and distributing indecent images of children.

At the time, Maidstone Crown Court heard he had a sickening addiction to viewing indecent images of children and he admitted seven charges of possessing indecent photographs of a child and three of distributing indecent photographs.

The court also heard that he had been jailed for four months in June 1998 for committing similar offences of possessing indecent images of children.

And in August 2001, the father-of-two was sent to prison for eight months for outraging public decency at a "dogging" lay-by off the A249 at Detling, near Maidstone.

In 2005, not only was he jailed but the court also placed him on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years and issued a sexual harm prevention order which banned him from owning a computer and working with or being in the presence of children under 16 without a parent present.

Officers had gone to his home earlier this month after realising he had a Facebook account which showed him with a child, something he’s not allowed to do a part of his SHPO.

However, when officers searched the 57-year-old’s home on May 21 they found the DVD which was titled “Dog House” and that Symmons had an internet ready device at his home – something he was prohibited from having as part of his order.

Symmons, of Ruskin Road, Maidstone, was later charged with three offences, possessing extreme pornographic images, possessing images of children – which he was prohibited from doing because of the order – and possessing an internet enabled device, which he was also not allowed to have at home.

He admitted all three offences when he appeared before magistrates in Medway on Monday May 22.

The court heard when officers went to his home he refused to tell them who the child was in the picture of his Facebook account.

James Nichols prosecuting said: “Officers made an unannounced visit after seeing he had a Facebook account which showed a picture of him and a child and he is not allowed to have pictures of children, it is a breach of his order.

“He had images of children on devices and he would not tell police who the children were.”

Mr Nichols told the court Symmons also had a DVD titled Dog House which showed a woman performing a sex act with a dog.

The court also heard there was no suggestion Symmons had any indecent images of children and that the pictures he did have on devices just showed him with his grandchildren.

District Judge Stephen Leake was also told the order on Symmons had been in place for 18 years and that he had been married for 22 years and had two children and four grandchildren and it was those youngsters who were in his pictures.

The court also heard since 2005, when Symmons was given the sexual harm prevention order, technology had progressed a lot and that the internet ready device he had at home had been for work, but his order had been made so long ago, it didn’t have a condition that he could use it from his home.

Judge Leake decided to order a pre-sentencing report to be carried out on Symmons and he was granted bail until he is sentenced which will be held at the same court on June 14.