A SEX offender who failed to hand over electronic devices to police has been given an eight-week jail sentence.

In 2015, Roy Dove was jailed for 40 months and made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) after travelling to the Philippines to have sex with a 14-year-old girl and importing thousands of indecent images.

As part of the SHPO, restrictions were placed on his use of electronic devices capable of accessing the Internet or storing images, and he was ordered to make monitoring officers aware of any that he had.

Officials visited his home in Normanby, near Middlesbrough, on May 20, and Dove told them about a laptop in his bedroom and a tablet in the spare room, but denied having a mobile phone.

Teesside Crown Court heard that a USB memory stick, digital camera and dash-cam were found, but there were no images on any of them.

Duncan McReddie, mitigating, said: “Mr Dove is an eccentric man, a bit of a hoarder. These devices were simply there. They had not been used at all.

“When he was asked to disclose devices, his mind did not go to these three items, it went to the computers.

“He acknowledged in interview he should have made these devices known to police before they found them. They were not hidden.”

Dove, of Mason Street, Normanby, admitted breaching the SHPO.