A depraved former Army officer banned from using the internet managed to access a computer at the Medway campus of Kent university, a court heard.

It is not known what Phillip Dutfield, 61, was looking at in the university but previously he had been convicted of viewing images of child abuse and even bestiality. He is now facing sentencing for breaching court orders for the second time.

He was sentenced to six months in January 2006 after the images were found on his computer at his Gillingham home.

Then in April 2010 he was jailed for a further 16 months after indecent pictures of children and extreme pornography of bestiality were discovered on phones and a memory stick.

He had broken the terms of a sexual offences prevention order (SOPO) by owning a laptop computer capable of accessing the internet, a digital camera, memory stick and two phones.

Now, he has admitted breaching the order by using a computer capable of accessing the internet at the University of Kent at Chatham Maritime between September 2012 and November 2013 and having unsupervised contact with a young girl in July last year.

He denied committing a similar offence involving a young boy and the charge will be left on the court file.

The grandfather, of Garden Street, Gillingham, will be sentenced on July 6. Bail was granted.

Lucy Luttman, defending, told a judge at Maidstone Crown Court that the ex-Army captain had a heart condition and took drugs for it every day. He had enrolled at the University of Kent.

Dutfield was working as an administrator at a home for people with learning difficulties when arrested in November 2004.

He admitted downloading all kinds of material “because I have a morbid interest in my world”.

Judge Jeremy Carey called downloading such material “vile exploitation”.