Record details
A paedophile from west Dorset has been jailed for 32 months after offending over a 17 year period.
Timothy Brian Lovegrove, whose address was given as Black Lane, in Evershot, appeared before Bournemouth Crown Court on Friday, September 30 for sentencing.
Lovegrove, 68, had pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent photographs and pseudo photographs of a child and one count of possessing extreme pornographic images portraying an act of intercourse with a live animal.
He had made 24 Category A, 17 Category B and 2,194 Category C moving and still indecent images of children at Evershot, over a 17-year period between April 10, 2004 and June 24, 2021.
He also admitted during the same 17-year period to possessing 27 extreme pornographic images depicting, in an explicit and realistic way, a person performing an act of intercourse with a live animal.
Lovegrove was issued with four concurrent jail sentences totalling 32 months in prison. He has also been ordered to sign the sex offenders register indefinitely and will be subject to an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.
