A BUS driver was caught with a huge haul of child porn when police officers raided his home, a court heard.

After being arrested and bailed Gregory Powney moved from Gravesend to another part of Kent and continued to download the material.

The 53-year-old had amassed so many images that police were unable to put a total number on them, but they ran into tens of thousands.

Some were at the highest levels of four and five and featured victims as young as two, Maidstone Crown Court.

Powney was jailed for two years after he admitted 14 charges of making indecent images of a child between June and October last year and asked for 35 similar offences to be considered.

Judge Philip Statman said Powney was fortunate that the offences taken into consideration did not form a separate indictment, as he could have received a consecutive sentence.

Caroline Knight, prosecuting, said the home Powney previously occupied in The Avenue, Gravesend, was searched towards the end of last year.

He was released on police bail and it was later discovered that he had moved. Officers traced him to an address in Avenue Road, Ramsgate.

"Having been arrested he has continued to do the same thing," said his lawyer Ian Paton. "He bought a laptop and resumed."

Miss Knight asked that Powney be banned from working with children, as his job would involve him coming into contact with youngsters.

Powney was placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years.