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A sex offender bombarded under age girls with over 300 messages and deleted 500 visits to sexual websites even though he was banned from doing so. But police retrieved the evidence and Callum Keith Roberts, 23, was caught out, Caernarfon Crown Court heard.

A judge said it was a serious case because the defendant breached the ban twice while on the sex offender's register for life. Roberts, of Ffordd Llandygai, Llandygai near Bangor, admitted two counts of breaching a sexual harm prevention order and was jailed for 20 months, to run concurrently, for each offence.

Prosecutor Thomas McLaughlin said Roberts had been convicted at Swansea Crown Court in 2018 of offences including committing sexual activity with a child and causing a child to watch sexual activity. He was jailed for four years and placed on the register.

An order prevented him from contacting girls under 18, unless certain conditions were met, or deleting his internet use. However, the prosecutor said today that on June 9 last year Roberts bought an iPhone 7. The following month police officers went to his home, found the phone and reminded him of his obligations under the court order.

But days later they called again, studied the phone and discovered 310 WhatsApp messages to girls and phone calls, with one lasting 15 minutes. One girl was 13. Officers also found Roberts had made 557 internet visits to sites, with all but 18 of them having sexual content, and that he had deleted these searches.

Peter Donnison, defending, said while the offences are "incredibly serious" his client is still a young man of 23. The original offences were committed when he was 19. He lost his brother last year and hopes to be rehabilitated. Unfortunately, the Horizon rehabilitation programme had been unavailable when he was in custody, said Mr Donnison.

He added that Roberts "recognises the value of life and the importance of rehabilitation."

He has carpentry work lined up for when he is released.

The judge His Honour Timothy Petts told Roberts that his latest offences were so serious that only a custodial sentence was appropriate.