A PERVERT who flouted the Sex Offenders’ Register and downloaded child porn from the internet is back behind bars, this time for two years.

Burnley Crown Court heard how Colin Barlow, 48, had an explicit video of a girl aged about eight, bound and hooded as she was abused.

He also had two obscene video clips on his phone.

The day after his home in Rhoda Street, Nelson, was searched by police last July, the defendant went to Ireland.

He was later extradited back to England and arrested last August 5.

Barlow had been put on the register originally in 2000 when he had been jailed for seven years for a catalogue of child sex offences including attempted rape.

The defendant admitted two counts of not complying with the Sex Offenders’ Register, two of possessing an indecent photo of a child and one allegation of mak-ing an indecent photo of a child.

He was given a Sexual Offences Prevention Order.

David Macro, prosecuting, told the court police searched the defendant’s house last June 29.

He was present and as officers looked around they found a memory card on the television stand in the living room.

It was sent for analysis and was found to contain a sexually explicit video of a child.

Police executed another warrant on July 13, the defendant was again present and was asked if he had a mobile telephone with internet access.

He said he had, but that he had a right to privacy and to a telephone.

He refused to hand the phone over although he did so eventually.

Mr Macro said the phone was forensically examined and two indecent video clips were found in it.

The day after Barlow went to Ireland, breaching the Sex Offenders’ Register by not telling police where he was.

He was questioned on September 30 and made no comment.

He gave a prepared statement claiming he had no knowledge of the indecent video on the memory card and said he was allowed to possess a mobile phone.

The prosecutor said in March 2003, at Leicester Crown Court, Barlow was sent to prison for seven years for 14 sex offences, including gross indecency, indecent assault and child porn.

In July 2007 at Burnley Crown Court he was sent to custody for six months and banned from working with children for life, after being convicted of two allegations of making an indecent photo of a child.

Philip Holden, for Barlow, said there was no suggestion of any physical sexual assaults since the offences in Leicester.