October 2020 Convicted paedophile jailed A convicted paedophile has been jailed for two years after he was caught with a hoard of indecent material. Scott Pickering, 22, was convicted of child sexual offences at Scarborough Youth Court in July 2015 and placed on the Sex Offender’s Register for five years and handed a five-year sexual harm prevention order. On 3 June last year officers conducted a warrant at Pickering’s home in Garner Court, Huntingdon, where they seized a mobile phone and USB stick belonging to him. He reacted aggressively when they were seized and tried to snatch them back. Following forensic examination of the devices more than 4,600 indecent images of children, uploaded between 2017 and 2018, were found, including 1,658 category A (the most severe). Pickering was sentenced at Cambridge Crown Court on Friday (9 October) after pleading guilty to five counts of making an indecent photograph of a child and two counts of possessing an extreme pornographic image. He was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register for ten years and handed a ten-year sexual harm prevention order.