Martin Sparks, 47, of Maldon Walk, Redbridge, obtained over two hundred images despite dodging immediate imprisonment for an earlier identical offence.
At Snaresbrook Crown Court he received two years and four months’ imprisonment.
He was also handed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) and was placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
He pleaded guilty to five counts of breaching the SHPO, making indecent images of children (category A) and making indecent images of children (category B).
On Thursday, June 18, last year officers from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command executed a search warrant at Sparks’ home address.
He was still subject to a two-year suspended prison sentence and a SHPO, following a conviction in June, 2018 for making indecent images of children.
During the search of his address, officers seized a computer tower, which Sparks used to download the illegal images – this related to three of the breaches.
Officers also found an electronic tablet, which was a breach due to it not being declared to his Public Protection Unit manager.
The remaining breach was for connecting to the home’s router to use the internet when he downloaded the images.
Sparks was taken to an east London police station. When searched in custody, two USB digital storage devices were found in his shoes.
A total of 233 category A (the most serious) child abuse videos and 17 category B images were found on the USBs.
Detective Constable James Cavenham said: “Sparks is now behind bars after committing the same hideous offence once again.
“The evidence we gathered against him meant he had no option but to plead guilty.
"Although this is not a contact offence, every single image contains a child who is a victim of an appalling crime and when people like Sparks seek these images out, they continue to generate a market for this type of abuse.
“The Met will continue to relentlessly pursue and bring to justice those who download online images of child sexual abuse.”
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