John Carver made thousands of pounds selling child images then demanding money with menaces by threatening to track people down and hand their details to police.

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The 38-year-old was handed a nine-year extended sentence at Norwich Crown Court last year for blackmail, making indecent images of a child, distributing child sex images and failing to comply with notification requirements.

It came after he was arrested at Norwich bus station in January 2025 following a year on the run from police after having been released from prison on licence.

Carver had been "moving from hotel to hotel" using various aliases and "accessing a significant amount of indecent images of children", including via the online Telegram app.

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Carter, previously of Mile Cross Road in Norwich, has now been sentenced to a further two years for additional offences committed while he was residing in Stratford in east London in 2023.

Snaresbrook Crown Court heard police had discovered further indecent images and videos on his phone.

He was also in possession of a document described as a “paedophile manual”.

John Carver previously jailed in Norwich admitted offences in Stratford (Image: Norfolk Constabulary)

Police also found over 50 PayPal accounts which showed he had been receiving payments in exchange for the child abuse images.

Carver previously denied having a sexual attraction to children, blaming his behaviour on a drug addiction and stating that he had been working as a prostitute to fund his habit.

He has since admitted that he is attracted to children, the court heard.

Judge Ross Cohen, who sentenced him, ordered that his latest sentence be served at the same time as the nine-year extended sentence.

Carver was previously placed on the sex offenders' register indefinitely and made subject of an Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO).

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