A STOURBRIDGE sicko who turned to child porn after his release from prison has been spared further jail time.

At Wolverhampton Crown Court on Thursday September 4, depraved Robert Taylor was given an eight month sentence suspended for two years, despite being caught with 1,500 indecent photographs and films of children including a baby aged just nine months.

In 2002, Taylor was jailed for seven years after causing a car smash which killed a 22-year-old man, the term was reduced on appeal to five years.

After his release, Taylor, aged 29 of Hagley Road, found life difficult and began surfing the internet in search of the vile images.

The court heard prison had a “devastating impact” on his life, John Attwood, defending, told how, on his release from custody, his client was a “lonely, isolated young man with low esteem” and he turned to drink, smoking cannabis and using his computer.

He added, the computer became “almost a surrogate friend” and, after searching the internet for adult pornography Taylor found sites containing indecent images of children.

Mr Attwood said: “These images came to light and he went in search of other material that was deeply unpleasant, he is ashamed of what he did and full of self loathing.”

Mr Attwood told the court Taylor's life had fallen apart after the road accident on the Stourbridge to Kidderminster Road in March 2001 in which Richard Carrington was killed.

Judge Robert Trevor-Jones told Taylor it was clear he had been progressing to “even more worrying and disturbing images of children.”

He said it had happened during a deflating period in his life following a tragic accident and the images he watched were the result of the real exploitation of children who were left physically and emotionally damaged.

But, while the case crossed the custody threshold, he ruled he was able to allow Taylor who admitted 17 charges of making indecent images of children to keep his freedom.

Taylor was further ordered to register as a sex offender for ten years, placed under supervision for two years and told to attend the Sex Offenders Programme.

The Judge further ruled he must have no contact with anyone under 18 years of age without approval and he barred him from accessing the internet.

Alka Brigue, prosecuting, said Taylor’s name came to light during a check into credit card payments for the images, which included pictures at level five - the worst category.

Miss Brigue said the ages of the children in the images ranged from a baby to schoolgirls in their early teens and it was evident Taylor had clearly gone looking for the websites.

Mr Attwood stressed the images, some of which had sadistic undertones, were purely for Taylor's own use and there was no suggestion of distribution or file sharing.