A CHILD rapist has again been caught with prohibited images of children he had downloaded from the internet.

And Matthew Burren, 22, who has served time for a sickening sex attack on a five-year-old, was also found to be contacting children online, which he is banned from doing.

Now Burren could find himself back behind bars after a judge at Swindon Crown Court warned him a jail term was possible for his latest bout of offending.

Burren pleaded guilty to possessing prohibited images of children in the form of Japanese cartoons and twice breaching a sexual offence prevention order.

He was made subject to the order in November 2011 after he was convicted having prohibited images of children.

On that occasion, when he was on extended licence for a child rape committed when he was 12, he had sexualised line drawings of children he had downloaded.

The sexual offences prevention order banned him from viewing pornography or contacting anyone under 16 years of age.

But in January last year it was found he had been doing both, as well as possessing the prohibited images between August 2013 and February last year.

After entering his pleas Burrow, who has a severe stammer, said: "But may I say one thing: this case is very technical."

Claire Marlow, prosecuting said: "He was in contact with somebody under 16 and he admitted being in contact with someone under the age of 16."

Ronan McCann, defending, said about 45 images had been recovered from a remote hard drive showing images of Japanese animation.

He said his client had pleaded guilty on the basis that only five of the pictures represented indecent images of children.

The breach of the sexual offences prevention order was brought about by him contacting other people playing a computer game.

"He lives completely sheltered from all other forms of outside society. Present in court today is a council outreach worker who has worked with him for six months," said Mr McCann.

"His day is rising in mid afternoon, immediately engaging in activities on the computer, then not going to sleep until the early morning.

"All of the contact that is alleged is chat room based contact centred around a very specific game Mr Burren in involved in.

"The pornography searched for is in effect mainstream pornography but it remains in breach of the sexual offences prevention order."

He asked for the case to be put back for a psychiatric report as well as a presentence report prepared by a probation officers.

Recorder Maria Lamb said: "Mr Burren, you are going to come back to this court on April 24 for your sentencing hearing to take place.

"In the meantime there are going to be some reports carried out upon you. I can't make you co-operate with the psychiatrist but you ought to.

"I am also going to order there is a presentence report as well. It doesn't give any promise as to what the judge will do when he deals with you at the sentencing hearing."

She released Burren, of Willowherb Close, Haydon Wick, on unconditional bail until the next hearing.

In 2011 he was put on a two-year community order with supervision and ordered he live at the hostel with 24-hour monitoring and support and to attend a special school.

On that occasion the judge heard that as well as probation intervention since his release he had also been subject to multi-agency public protection arrangements. He was told although the defendant did not suffer from any mental illness, he had a 'pervasive development disorder'.