Ghost hunting Tesco worker dubbed ‘fat nonce’ filmed himself abusing tot in Philippines and told cops paedophilia was ‘his thing’
Timothy Smith, 42, boasted to police of his sexual interest in children as young as two and told how he had been offending for a decade - but said he did not see himself as a law-breaker
A PAEDO who filmed himself abusing a two-year-old girl in the Philippines had attacked another child two decades earlier but escaped with only a caution.
Evil sex predator Timothy Smith, 42, has been jailed for ten years after police found hundreds of videos of abuse on his computer.
The Tesco security guard from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Smith, whose colleagues referred to as the “fat nonce” later told cops paedophilia was “his thing” in a chilling interview confession.
He boasted to police of his sexual interest in children as young as two and told how he had been offending for a decade - but said he did not see himself as a law-breaker, a court heard.
He admitted visiting the Philippines and repeatedly abusing a victim under the age of five and told officers they would find videos of the abuse on his computers.
Police found footage included a 12-minute clip of Smith abusing the two-year-old in the south east Asian country which he admitted was one of several attacks on the toddler.
It also emerged in court Smith, who founded a small ghost-hunting group in Kent, had been given just a caution for three counts of sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl in 1995.
Jailing Smith for ten years, Judge Martin Joy said it was shocking the paedophile received only a caution back then and that the recent discoveries proved he was was danger to children.
He said: "When arrested for these offences you said you had been committing offences for 10 years.
"You admitted, and even boasted, of sexual interest in children as young as two-years-old.
"It is of significance you told police you don't regard yourself as a law breaker.”
Kent Police discovered the extent of Smith's crimes after an investigation into suspicious online activity traced to his house.
Smith also confessed to searching and saving indecent images of children, referred to himself as being a paedophile and said he shared masses of illegal videos and images.
Smith was convicted of three counts of sexual assault of a child between August 2015 and November 2015 and one count of sexual activity with a child in August 2013.
He was also convicted of three counts of distributing indecent images of children, six counts of making indecent images of children and three counts of taking indecent images of children.
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Detective Constable Mark Bennett, from Kent Police's Paedophile Online Investigation Team, said: "Timothy Smith is an extremely dangerous individual who is now facing justice for his appalling actions.
"Smith filmed himself sexually abusing a very young child and downloaded and shared vast numbers of other indecent images and videos.
"He also actively discussed his desires and actions with other paedophiles and has demonstrated little, if any, regard for the suffering of victims of these sickening crimes.”
An NSPCC spokesperson added: "This is a deeply disturbing case in which Smith not only fuelled the vile online trade in child abuse images but also physically abused a child in the real world.
"The NSPCC is calling on government, law enforcement and internet providers to do more to prevent child abuse images from being published and circulated online."
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