Days after a Dunedin sex offender's sentence ended, he took his brother's laptop and began downloading child pornography again.
Graeme Murray Purvis (52) was jailed for nearly three years for offences he committed in 2013, when he took a friend's computer while she was in hospital and downloaded objectionable images. He was released in January this year and his parole period lapsed in August.
Yesterday, he appeared before Judge John Macdonald in the Dunedin District Court where he pleaded guilty to two representative charges of possessing objectionable publications.
On August 18, police visited his Graham St address, where they found a black laptop, which Purvis told them belonged to his brother.
He consented to officers taking the computer and it was forensically examined. On it were eight pictures "depicting child abuse of a sexual nature".