Loughton: Sex offender jailed for three years

A registered sex offender has been sentenced to three years in prison after admitting 12 counts of making indecent images of children following an investigation by Essex Police.

Trevor Pearce was the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) for 10 years and put on the sex offenders’ register after being convicted of previous indecent images of children related offences in 2021.

Our Management of Sexual Offenders and Violent Offenders (MOSOVO) team were making a routine visit to the 63-year-old’s home last year when they discovered indecent images of children.

Officers checking his devices found a number of indecent images of children.

These devices were seized and analysed by our digital forensics experts, and more than 600 images and videos were found either on the phones or in cloud storage associated with Pearce.

Further prohibited phones and tablets were seized in a warrant in February 2025 at Pearce’s address. This revealed further offending with the use of undeclared storage devices, deleting his browsing history, and failing to disclose his use of specific mobile applications – all of which were breaches of his SHPO.

The youngest victim in the materials is believed the be less than a year old. We also found upskirting images relating to offences committed in Loughton.

On 3 September at Chelmsford Crown Court, Pearce, formerly of Castell Road in Loughton, pleaded guilty to:

• 12 counts of making an indecent image of children
• one count of possessing extreme pornographic images
• one count of recording an image under clothing to observe another without their consent
• one count of breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order

At the same court on Friday 3 October Pearce was sentenced to three years in prison, as well as placed on the Sex Offenders' Register indefinitely and receiving an indefinite SHPO, applying even tighter controls on his behaviour when he is released.

Following the sentencing MOSOVO Officer Jai Rivers said:

This case reiterates the importance of the constant monitoring our team carries out across Essex every day.
Those who fail to adhere to court ordered restrictions will be brought back before the court.
They are there the keep others safe, and Pearce made it clear by breaching these he was willing to exploit the victims in these images.
On this occasion we found additional offending and while Pearce made excuses and denial during interview, the evidence we secured left him with no option but to plead guilty.
Today’s jail term reflects the seriousness of his offences, and I hope acts as a deterrent to other perpetrators. If you commit these crimes, you will be arrested and brought before the courts.

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