A pervert has been jailed after a police dog sniffed out his USB stick containing hundreds of indecent images of children.
Timothy O'Keefe, 58, obtained the images over a two-year period, from June 2022 and June 2024, while he was living in Portsmouth and Andover.
Following an investigation by the internet child abuse team at Hampshire Constabulary in July 2022, his address was searched.
He was living in Arundel Street, Portsmouth, at the time.
O’Keefe’s laptop was found after it was thrown into a neighbour’s garden, and officers deployed PD Dizzie.
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PD Dizzie, a digital data detection dog, was able to sniff out O’Keefe’s USB stick.
Police found it had “many indecent images of children”.
O'Keefe, of May Close in Southampton, pleaded guilty to possessing more than 700 indecent images of children.
The offences took place between June 2022 and June 2024, while O’Keefe was living in Portsmouth and Andover.
Appearing at Winchester Crown Court on Friday, O’Keefe was handed a two year prison sentence for the offences.
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