Police carried out a search of Lees’ home on June 4, 2020, and seized a number of electronic devices, Winchester Crown Court heard on Friday.

Prosecuting, Jack Wright, said that only his desktop computer and mobile phone were examined by police.

The court heard that 11 Category B images and videos were found, but 58,489 Category C images and videos were discovered.

But the true scale of the 45-year-old’s offending could be much greater as more than 500,000 images were uncategorised because “police did not have the resources to download” them.

Lees, of The Orchard, Dibden, was using a BitTorrent to access the images and had three terabytes worth of downloads.

During the investigation police found that Lees would search the same terms and “admitted searching for the same faces on multiple occasions”.

Recorder Power said: “The concern I have, expressed in interview and the pre-sentence report, Mr Lees had no remorse and doesn’t see downloading images of children causes children to be abused.”

Lees previously pleaded guilty to two counts of making indecent photographs of childre

Lees was given a six-month prison sentence suspended for 24 months.

He must also complete 100 hours unpaid work and 20 rehabilitation days, along with the Horizon programme.

The 64-year-old told his victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, that they would keep his crimes a “secret”.

Prosecution barrister, Robert Brown, said that the girl eventually complained about Murphy to her mother who then contacted the NSPCC.

She said that her abuser was nice when her mother was around but “horrible” when she was away.

The youngster added that she would tell him “get off me but he would continue”.

During a voluntary police interview, Murphy was made aware an allegation had been made against him.

He told officers “It had got out of hand” and that the abuse, which started in 2018 and lasted until 2020, had “started with tickling”.

Murphy claimed he was ashamed and referred to himself as a “bloody idiot”.

At one point, he even said: “I would not want to come to court or be a witness or nothing.”

In her victim impact statement read out at Southampton Crown Court by Mr Brown, the girl said: “When I am sleeping I get flashbacks.

“When I am lying down in my bed my hands shake a bit because I am scared it will happen again.”

In other parts of her statement, she said the ordeal left her feeling sick and that she had lost her trust in adult men.

Furthermore, she wanted to be a boy so she would not be abused in future.

Meanwhile, the girl’s father called Murphy’s crimes both hideous and inhumane.

Appearing before Southampton Crown Court, Murphy, of George Green, Slough, was charged with three counts of sexual assault to which he previously pleaded guilty.

However, Judge Nicholas Rowland deemed that nothing but a custodial sentence could be justified.

Murphy was jailed for 30 months and made the subject of an indefinite restraining order not to contact his victim.

He was given a ten-year sexual harm prevention order and must register as a sex offender.

The 51-year-old, of Lyons Street, Southampton, followed his victims before pleasuring himself in front of them in Frog Lane, Fordingbridge.

Both were left “badly frightened”.

During sentencing, Judge Gary Burrell QC said that Oakley “seemed quite belligerent and arrogant” during his trial.

He said: “This sort of offence can sometimes lead to contact offences.

“You badly frightened both of these women. One was quite robust about it but the other was clearly frightened and scared by your behaviour. She was upset.”

He added: “You have exposed yourself to women before, but these offences are still aggravating factors.

“They were alone and where no one was around, and they were therefore vulnerable.”

For the offences which happened on January 25 and 28 last year, he was jailed for six months and made the subject of a five-year restraining order against one of his victims.

He must sign on as a sex offender for seven years.