The 67-year-old, of Holmecross Road, had also sent the videos to another Facebook user using an account with a different name but his own picture in November, 2020.

Garvan was given an extended licence period for whenever he leaves prison of two years and nine months because of the significant risk of serious harm he poses to children.

Her Honour Judge Rebecca Crane told him: “Children are at very real risk of sexual offences being committed against them [by you] and I do find you dangerous.”

Garvan’s crimes were discovered when an offending manager visited his home on November 25, last year, and saw the tablet which police did not know about.

Because of his previous convictions for sexual offences against children, the defendant was under strict instructions about his internet access and devices.

Garvan initially denied having the tablet to officers before admitting it, and they found the fake Facebook account and messages asking for sexual photos from a child.

The defendant was arrested and he admitted talking to a child online but insisted he did not know their age.

Following another home visit on January 18, police officers found a notebook with names and Facebook account details which matched those on the tablet.

Garvan, who was now not allowed any internet access, denied all knowledge of it but Judge Crane said: “It was clearly your notebook.”

Police found the defendant had made the indecent images between September 16 and November 25, 2020, and sent them on November 2 and 8, that year.

Garvan has tried to deny he has a sexual interest in children but Judge Crane said that was ‘clearly not true’.

The judge said: “You are remorseful, you say these offences reason out of being lonely.

“You have now accepted you need assistance and want that assistance, which is a positive step for those who can work with you in custody.”

As well as the indecent images, Garvan breached his notifications requirements of the sex offenders register in 2014, 2018 and November, 2020.

The defendant pleaded guilty at Northampton Magistrates’ Court to those offences and to the indecent image charges at the crown court.

Of his 23 previous convictions, the most pertinent were convictions in 2008 for 11 sexual offences relating to children as well as grooming and making a child under 13 to watch a sexual act.

Garvan was given two concurrent 27-month jail sentences for distributing the indecent images and five concurrent 12-month terms for making the images and the sex offenders register breaches consecutively.

The 36-year-old, of Clarke Road, Northampton, also recorded another person for the purpose of sexual gratification.

His Honour Judge David Herbert extended his period on licence by three years ‘to protect the public’ as he poses ‘a significant risk of serious harm to young girls’.

“You were given a chance in 2015 to address your interest in young girls and you have not taken it,” the judge told Peach.

“You have continued to offend and have an entrenched sexual interest in very young girls.

“Your conduct has escalated over the years from simply viewing young girls to contacting and encouraging them to perform intimate sexual activity.

Police found 128 recordings of live-streams of the girls under the age of 16 performing sexual acts for payment on Peach’s laptop after it was seized in February 2020, dating from August 2019 to just three days prior.

Chris Jeyes, prosecuting, said the defendant and the other viewers who watched as a group clearly knew the girls were underage, even making disgusting comments about how young they were.

They could give in-software gifts to encourage the children to do more and more serious sexual acts, which could be exchanged for real money, the court heard.

Peach’s laptop and phone were taken by police after a monitoring visit as part of his SHPO found sexual content on his internet search history and an application to browse anonymously and access the dark web.

On the mobile were 1,157 indecent pictures and videos of children ranging from category A, the most serious type, to category C, the least serious.

There were 49 category A pictures and 160 videos, 40 category B pictures and 42 videos and 648 category C pictures and 218 videos overall – all featuring girls aged under 16.

Judge Herbert told him: “There are children out there who suffer harm so people like you can satisfy yourself by watching these images.”

The voyeurism victim was ‘shocked and mortified’ when they found out, Mr Jeyes told the court.

Reading out their statement, he said: “I don’t want to imagine what was going on in his mind. It sickens me, I feel quite angry and I have mixed emotions of insecurity.