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A registered sex offender made thousands of pounds selling indecent images of children to people who he then tried to blackmail, prosecutors claim.
John Carver, 37, is accused of 17 offences including demanding money with menaces by threatening to track people down and call police.
Norwich Magistrates’ Court heard it was alleged he sold indecent images between September 2024 and January 2025 to online users of the Telegram app including in Norfolk.
Josephine Jones, prosecuting, said he had swapped devices to cover his tracks.
Carver, who is from Northampton, entered no plea to seven counts of blackmail and eight counts of distributing 5,272 indecent child images and videos, many category A - the most serious.
He is also charged with possessing category A images and failing to comply with sex offender notification requirements by not telling police his whereabouts.
He was remanded into custody until a hearing at Norwich Crown Court on May 2.