Christopher Chamings took pictures of boys he saw at the Bakewell Show, then superimposed their faces on indecent images he found on the internet.

Police discovered the offences just two years after Chamings had been jailed for previous crimes committed while he was captain of Derby Golf Club, in Sinfin.

Officers found Chamings was still using some of  the photographs of youngsters, aged as young as 10, from the golf club.

For the latest offences, the 66-year-old, of Norfolk Gardens, off Duffield Road, Derby, was sentenced to four years and three months in prison and handed an indefinite sexual offences prevention order.

Police found he had amassed nearly 5,000 images after seizing his computer and compact discs from his home.

The haul included photographs and movies that had been digitally altered to include the faces of youngsters he knew and pictures of boys he had taken at events such as the Bakewell Show.

He admitted breaching a sexual offences prevention order previously imposed, 15 charges of possessing indecent child images and seven charges of making indecent child images.

During the hearing, prosecutor Jon Wood  told Derby Crown Court that, in April 2006, Chamings had been sentenced to 27 months in prison, banned from working with children indefinitely and placed on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years after admitting 15 charges of making an indecent photograph of a child and four of possessing indecent child images.

Under the terms of the order, Chamings had to inform police if he acquired a computer and was banned from installing software which would delete all previous material on the machine.

Chamings was released from prison early last year and, by the end of 2007, he had told officers at the Derbyshire force that he had a laptop and had internet access.

Mr Wood said that a police officer from Derbyshire’s dangerous persons management unit checked Chamings’ laptop during a routine visit to his home on April 29, where he found pictures of young boys in “provocative poses”. He also found  the software that Chamings  was banned from using.

A search warrant was obtained and 170 CDs, two flash drives and a hard drive were seized, containing a total of 4,977 images.

Mr Wood said: “What the police found when they looked more deeply were movies he had created himself.

“What he had been doing is taking innocent pictures of young boys at events like  agricultural shows. He then manipulated them by using special  software.

“Over a four-month period, he acquired nearly 5,000 images.”

Some of the pictures used were of boys he had photographed before his last conviction.

Keith Raynor, defending, said  that Chamings had admitted the offences when interviewed by police and that he offered his apologies to the people used on the images.

Mr Raynor added: “He went to some events such as the Bakewell Show and he had taken photos of young men at those shows.

“There are no images of real young people being sexually abused. That means in this case there is not a risk of serious harm.”

Sentencing Chamings, Judge David Price said he did not consider the former golf coach to be dangerous but that a relatively long sentence would be imposed for a number of reasons.

He said: “One, you do have convictions for similar offences and the last sentence did not deter you.

“It is also  disturbing  that there are 5,000 images and almost 1,000 of those fall into category five (the most serious images).

“I have seen a number of images and they show mainly the caning of young boys.

“In saying that, though, I accept they were  not real images and there was no evidence that you have passed on these  images to other persons.”

Chamings was sentenced to three-and-a-half years for making indecent photographs of a child, to run concurrently with a two-year sentence for possessing indecent photographs of a child.

He was also handed a nine-month sentence for breaching his sexual prevention offences order, this to run consecutively.

Speaking after the court case, Detective Constable Paul Stevenson  said: “If you go on the internet and view or download child pornography,  you are breaking the law and  contributing to the abuse of real children.”