A SEX offender who “blatantly and repeatedly” breached court orders told police it was ‘his life and he could look at what he wants to’.

Paul Baker, of Rosemary Lane in Haverfordwest, appeared at Swansea Crown Court charged with three breaches of a sexual harm prevention order.

Prosecutor Emily Bennett told the court that police received a notification from the e-safe monitoring software on July 11 that Baker was looking at an illicit website which featured “3D nude child models”.

Officers were also able to see that Baker was using an incognito internet browser. When asked by police, Baker said that he “only used Google search software”.

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Further searches found that between October 19 and July 25 he had used seven different browsers that enable anonymous browsing, and had been using an email account which had not been registered with police.

The officers also found searches for Wi-Fi router and sim cards, and Baker had deleted internet-enabled apps and their history from his phone between October 19 and August 1.

62-year-old Baker was interviewed on August 1 and denied the offences. He told officers that he had “forgotten” to tell the police about the email account and confirmed that he had deleted gaming apps from his phone.

“The defendant stated that it was his life, he could look at what he wants and the police could not stop him,” Ms Bennett said.

He again denied using the incognito internet browser, and said he did not have Wi-Fi at his home.

Officers told Baker that analysis of his phone showed it had been connected to the Wi-Fi, to which he replied: ‘Is it? I didn’t think it would work’.

Ms Bennett said these latest offences represented a “very serious and persistent breach in a multitude of ways”.

The court heard that Baker had 14 previous convictions for 55 offences. He was jailed for six years in March 2003 for three offences of indecent assault of a girl under 14, and had been convicted for multiple breaches of a sexual risk order and sexual harm prevention orders by making and possessing indecent and prohibited images of children.

Jon Tarrant, in mitigation, said that the defendant had pleaded guilty to each of the three breaches.

Mr Tarrant asked for court to consider the principle of totality as there was “some degree of overlap” between the offences.

He said that Baker’s previous convictions and the seriousness of them meant that he could not argue against his sexual harm prevention order being extended indefinitely.

Judge Paul Thomas KC said Baker had “a complete determination not to change [his] ways”.

“When you were spoke to by police, you made a worrying comment,” he said.

“They cannot stop you doing it and neither can the court. What the court can do is to keep you in prison for such a length of time that you are not able to access that material.”

Baker was sentenced to three years and four months in prison, and his sexual harm prevention order was extended indefinitely.