A PAEDOPHILE who was caught in possession of nearly 400 sex abuse images during a police raid on a Monmouthshire home has been given a suspended sentence.

Calum Davies, 21, of Underhill Crescent, Abergavenny, pleaded guilty to making 201 category A indecent images of children, 123 category B indecent images of children, and 62 category C indecent images of children at Newport Magistrates’ Court.

Davies, who committed the offences over six years between January 24, 2018 and March 11, 2024 also pleaded guilty to possession of a prohibited image of a child.

The defendant was jailed of 35 weeks with the sentence suspended by 12 months.

Davies also was made the subject of a 10-year sexual harm prevention disorder and ordered to pay a £187 surcharge and £85 costs.