A CONVICTED paedophile who flouted the terms of the Sex Offenders' Register (SOR) by not registering a new bank card, will contest it as not covered by notification rules issued to him by the police, at a special hearing. 

David Mark Bradshaw, of Dolcroft Road, Rookley, admitted failing to comply with notification requirements of the SOR on October 5 last year, when he appeared at the Isle of Wight Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.

Under the terms of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, Bradshaw failed, without reasonable excuse, to comply by not notifying the police of a new bank card within 72 hours of its receipt.

Bradshaw, 66, has a one-year suspended jail term hanging over him, after he was convicted by an Isle of Wight Crown Court judge of possessing almost 35,000 child sex abuse images — ranging from category A, the most serious kind, to category C — almost three years ago.

On top of a jail term, suspended for 24 months, Bradshaw was placed on the SOR and made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, both to run for ten years.

Regarding his latest offence, Bradshaw went to Newport Police Station on October 5 to register a new bank card and stated it been received the previous week, said Ann Smout, prosecuting.

However, his previous bank card had expired in June last year and reissued, with a new expiry date of June 2026.

"It would suggest he'd had the card rather longer than he told the police," Mrs Smout told the bench.

Bradshaw had breached the court order twice since it was made in 2020 by deleting the search history on his laptop and failing to register, as per his notification requirements, said Mrs Smout.

"Having indecent images of children are not free and not material that falls into your inbox. They have to be paid for. A lot who commit those offences are detected because of the use of a bank or credit card," she explained.

"So Bradshaw having an undetected bank card is very serious."

For Bradshaw, Oscar Vincent said his client disputed the wording about bank card notification handed to him by the police, which he says covered only credit cards, which he did not own.

Magistrates, unable to properly sentence Bradshaw, based on the differing accounts, ordered a Newton hearing be held on February 9.