A FETISH club organiser "pushed moral boundaries beyond legal" when he downloaded indecent images of children and animals, a judge has said.

Judge Paul Lawton told David Dawson, 48 from Leeds, that his long-standing interest in the fetish scene was "bound to stray into criminality eventually".

Dawson, who ran a "cage club" event in Bury, Greater Manchester, on Sundays, was exposed when the club owner stumbled across the defendant's pen drive at the premises.

Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard the owner was "disgusted" when he saw indecent images on the drive and informed police in December 2016.

The defendant was arrested and electronic devices were seized which uncovered four indecent still images of children - one in the most serious category A - some 93 extreme pornographic images mainly involving sex with animals and four animated indecent movies.

A number of search terms were also found on his devices, which included "pre-teens", "naked Oriental teens" and "amateur schoolgirl websites".

Judge Lawton told the defendant: "It is an unusual way to spend your Sunday afternoons and evenings. It was bound to stray into criminality eventually. Pushing the moral boundaries, pushing them beyond legal."

Max Saffman, defending, agreed the boundaries "became blurred" for his client.

Dawson received a 12-month jail term, suspended for two years, after the judge acknowledged his previous good character and the "deep remorse" he had expressed.

The defendant will be on the Sex Offender Register for 10 years.

He pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to making indecent images of children, possessing extreme porn and a prohibited indecent image.