A CONVICTED pervert who babysat young girls at a house in Bradford after hiding his past from their horrified mother has been jailed for two years and four months.

Scott Huddleston, 31, of Sunbridge Road, Bradford, failed to tell the woman he had recently been sentenced for downloading and distributing child porn.

Bradford Crown Court heard that she felt sick and disgusted after leaving Huddleston alone with her children.

In April last year he was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court to a suspended prison term for possessing more than 1,000 indecent images of children and distributing about 40 of them.

Prosecutor Jonathan Sharp said today the images included the abuse of girls as young as three.

Huddlestone had also been active on chat rooms where he pretended to be a child.

He was sentenced to two years imprisonment, suspended for two years, and ordered to register with the police as a sex offender and comply with a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO).

Huddleston breached the court orders by failing to notify the police when he was staying at family homes in Bradford and Wakefield and by having unsupervised contact with the youngsters who lived at the property in Bradford.

Mr Sharp said there was no suggestion that Huddleston had committed any offences against any of the children.

The Bradford mother described feeling "shocked, disgusted and completely betrayed" by the defendant.

The Wakefield mother, who had been told his conviction was for fraud, said she felt sick and cried herself to sleep after finding out the truth.

Huddleston also had to tell the police if he obtained a credit or debit card so they could keep a check on his use of them. When he was arrested he was in possession of two unauthorised bank cards.

His barrister, Richard Clews, stressed there was no evidence or suggestion that his client had done anything untoward to the children. The bank cards had not been used for any purposes that might have interested the police.

"These particular breaches whilst serious, because any breach is serious, are not high on the scale of breaches," Mr Clews said.

Huddleston was sentenced to 16 months in jail for breaching the court orders and a further 12 months on top when Judge Peter Benson activated part of the suspended prison term.

He will be subject to the indefinite SOPO when he is released.