A SEX offender who failed to comply with the terms of his notification requirements is starting a further 40-month jail term.

Frank Smith, now 31, served the full three years of a previous sentence imposed at Teesside Crown Court, in May 2012, for grooming and having sexual relations with a 15-year-old girl, and for downloading indecent images of children from the internet.

Durham Crown Court heard that following his release, in May last year, he was subject to lifetime registration as a sex offender and an indefinite Sexual Offences Prevention Order .

Rupert Doswell, prosecuting, told the court that within months he moved from his family home, in Blackhall Colliery, County Durham, to Baxter Road, Town End Farm, Sunderland, but failed to inform police monitoring officers after finding work at the nearby Nissan motor manufacturing plant.

It also emerged he had uploaded 17 indecent images to be viewed by users of an internet chat room site.

They included moving footage of a girl aged between six and eight being sexually abused by an adult male.

In the conversation recovered by police Smith boasted of having had sexual relations with girls aged 13 and 15, the latter for which he was jailed, bemoaning that she, “jumped on the Jimmy Savile bandwagon,” to win compensation.

Smith admitted breaching requirements as a registered sex offender and distributing indecent photos on the day of his scheduled trial, last month, having previously denied the charges.

His counsel, Jonathan Walker, told the sentencing hearing that Smith had tried to “knuckle down” and move away from his past offending, but lapsed during a period of boredom.

Jailing him, Judge Simon Hickey said Smith had, “a concerning background” and still appeared to have his “sexual proclivity” seeking material featuring children being sexually exploited.