A BRIDGWATER man who was found to possess indecent photographs of children has been spared jail.

Miles Jarrold, aged 55, of Rosebery Avenue, Bridgwater was sentenced at Taunton Crown Court on Friday, February 14.

Jarrold was charged with three counts of making indecent photographs of a child, one count of possessing a prohibited image of a child, and one count of possessing extreme pornographic images involving animals.

He was given a three-year community order, put on the sex offenders register for five years and given a sexual harm prevention order, also for five years.