A 35-YEAR-OLD man from Northwich has pleaded guilty to possessing thousands of indecent images of children.

Nathan Dunville, of Meadow Grove, appeared in Chester Crown Court on April 8, charged with making more than 600 indecent images/pseudo images of children and possessing more than 3,000 indecent images/pseudo images of children.

Between December 1, 2007, and February 12, 2012, in Northwich, Dunville made one category C image of a child and had in his possession 472 images and six videos of category A, 944 images and three videos of category B and 1,737 images and 15 videos of category C.

Between January 5, 2015, and February 12, 2020, at Northwich, Dunville is also charged with making a category A indecent photograph of a child and 647 category B photographs of a child.

Dunville will appear back in Chester Crown Court on May 16.