More than 6,000 indecent images found on guilty ex-BBC producer's devices

Jordan DaviesBBC Wales
News imageBBC Dylan Dawes standing leaning on a door. He has a bag over his shoulder.BBC
Dylan Dawes was found guilty at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday

A former BBC Wales producer has been found guilty of possessing or making more than 6,200 indecent images of children.

Dylan Dawes, 50, had been downloading the images over a 16-year period, using a hard drive, a compact laptop and two iPads.

His catalogue of images also included 192 of the most serious kind - classed as category A.

The four-day trial at Cardiff Crown Court heard Dawes searched the term "jailbait" in Google, and all of the indecent images were saved in a file named, "Dylan Account" on his computer.

He was found guilty on all six charges.

Dawes claimed he allowed BBC colleagues to use his devices and hard drive for work, and someone else must have downloaded the images.

Dawes joined the BBC in 2001.

He will be sentenced at a later date.