A 35-year-old Ceredigion man who acted as a DJ at a children’s disco while on police bail for possessing extreme child sexual abuse material and bestiality pornography has been sentenced to 16 months’ imprisonment at Swansea Crown Court.
Dyfed Jones, residing at Bridge Street, Llanon, Ceredigion, returned to the dock for sentence at Swansea Crown Court in November 2026 having previously pleaded guilty to six criminal counts:
Three counts of possession of indecent images of children in Categories A, B, and C
Possession of extreme pornography depicting bestiality
Possession of prohibited images of children
Sharing an intimate photograph without consent
Prosecutor Samuel Jenkins outlined to the court that the offending first came to light in October 2025 after a complaint was made to police that Jones had shared intimate photographs of a woman he had met through the Snapchat application with other individuals. Jones was arrested, his mobile telephone was seized, and he was released under investigation.
Following initial forensic examination of his telephone, Jones was rearrested in May 2026, with further electronic devices seized from his home address. He was subsequently released on conditional bail, which included strict conditions restricting his contact with children.
Full forensic examination of Jones’s devices uncovered more than 750 indecent images of children, including 225 files in Category A—the most severe classification of sexual abuse—among which were images showing children as young as two or three years old being raped. Investigators also established that Jones had been actively searching for child sexual abuse material, obtaining files via the encrypted messaging application Telegram, and had paid an unknown contact $35 for a folder containing 316 files.
While Jones remained on conditional police bail, detectives discovered that he had breached his bail conditions by acting as a DJ at a children’s disco.
The court was told that Jones had two previous convictions for 19 offences, including receiving a community order in 2011 for possession of indecent images and causing a female under 16 to engage in sexual activity, as well as a conviction in 2020 for sending malicious communications.
In mitigation, defence barrister Emily Bennett stated that her client recognised he had “problematic sexualised behaviour” requiring intervention, noting that the former bus driver was now training as a lorry driver and had spent three months on remand constructively helping to teach fellow inmates the Welsh language.
Under the provisions of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 and statutory UK child protection legislation, the female victim in the image-sharing offence—as well as all children depicted in indecent material—is protected by mandatory, lifelong statutory anonymity from the moment an allegation is made. Any publication, broadcast, or public dissemination of information capable of leading to their identification is strictly prohibited under UK law.
Passing sentence, Judge Huw Rees noted that the author of a 19-page pre-sentence report believed Jones had “returned to his own way”, addressing the defendant directly:
“Showing an interest in child sexual abuse material creates demand for more images to be produced in order to satisfy the unhealthy, lustful, and degenerate demands of people like you.”
Judge Rees emphasised that the children depicted in the files were real children being sexually abused somewhere in the world to feed the “filthy interests” of offenders like Jones, with online sharing extending their trauma.
Applying a one-third credit for his guilty pleas, Judge Rees sentenced Jones to 16 months’ immediate imprisonment—comprising 12 months for the possession offences and four months consecutively for disclosing an intimate photograph without consent—alongside imposing a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) and ordering him to remain on the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years.
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