November 2010 Padiham paedophile is sent to prison A PERVERT who fled to Holland after police found 10,500 child abuse pictures at his home has been jailed for two and a half years. Dennis Bowskill, 44, skipped bail the day before he was due to appear at Burnley Crown Court in March to enter pleas to the allegations. Instead of turning up, Bowskill, of Albert Street, Padiham, took a ferry to Calais before travelling to Holland. Lancashire police, who had been told by Bowskill he was a Christian, had circulated his photograph to churches across Europe and child protection services. He was also featured on Crimewatch and ended up on a website, The Missing List. The defendant was said to have been begging in Amsterdam. Police inquiries were to reveal he had been to Belgium and Germany as well. He was arrested on June 16 after a police sting when he tried to rent accommodation in Amsterdam. The landlord had seen him him as a wanted sex offender on the internet, alerted police and a Dutch officer posing as the landlord met Bowskill at Amsterdam Central Station. He was kept in custody in Holland for two months and was then extradited to the UK and claimed he had amnesia. The defendant was given six months in jail for failing to surrender. The defendant had earlier admitted 22 charges of making an indecent photo of a child and five counts of possessing an indecent photo of a child. He had also pleaded guilty to three charges of breaching the sex offenders register. He is on the sex offenders register for life and Judge Andrew Woolman gave him a 10 year sex offences prevention order, under which he is banned from using the internet unless he has installed special software to prevent him from downloading child porn. He is already subject to a lifetime order which prohibits him from associating or communicating with anybody under 16.