A man has been jailed after he was found with a large number of sexual abuse images.

Lee Parsons, 41, of Sudbury Close, Hockley, was jailed for 28 months at Basildon Crown Court today.

Essex Police Online Investigation Team was made aware of his activity over file sharing networks following a report received from the Child Exploitation Online Protection centre (CEOP).

Following a detailed investigation into Parsons activity, he was found to be in possession of large volumes of images portraying different levels of sexual abuse.

Police say the images involved in this investigation were not only large in quantity but were some of the most disturbing images seen by officers.