Sex offender used AI to make indecent child images

A sex offender who used AI to create indecent images of children has been jailed for four years.

Essex Police described the content possessed by Adam Evans as being "so realistic" that it looked real.

Officers monitoring his device, due to a court order, were alerted to his offending in September 2025 and found 13 illegal images had been accessed on it.

The 51-year-old, of Jerounds, Harlow, admitted nine offences of making indecent pseudo-photographs of children and was sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court. He will serve a further three years on extended licence upon his release from prison.

It came after Evans was being monitored by police due to a sentence imposed upon him for sexual offending in 2019.

He refused to answer any questions in an interview with officers, but later admitted his crimes, which were carried out via an AI-assisted application.

Jai Rivers, who investigates sex offences for Essex Police, said: "This depraved act of using AI is treated just as seriously as using actual photographs.

"Offenders who are thinking of engaging with this type of activity will be caught and face the full consequences of their actions."

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