A Neighbourhood Policing Team officer had hundreds of indecent images of children stored on his phone, including a picture of a baby that was bound and abused, a jury heard today.

Jonathan Plummer, 35, a Police Community Support Officer with West Yorkshire Police, denies making and distributing indecent images and possession of extreme pornographic pictures.

He worked in the Wakefield area as part of the Neighbourhood Policing Team and as a Cyber Prevent Officer, Leeds Crown Court was told.

Plummer is said to have fantasised about rape and been interested in BDSM.

He pleads not guilty to seven offences, including one allegation of distributing an inde-cent image of a child at Category A; three charges of making an indecent photo of a child; one offence of possession of prohibited images of a child (cartoons); and two charges of possession of an extreme pornographic image.

Prosecutor Louise Reevell said that indecent images of children, from babies to teenagers, at Category A, B and C, were found on Plummer’s personal phone.

There were also extreme pornographic images. One was a “snuff movie” showing a naked and bound woman being stabbed with a sword, Mrs Reevell said.

She appeared to die at the end of the film but the police didn’t think it was real. Another was a woman in a sexual position with a dog.

Mrs Reevell said that Plummer was arrested on August 14, 2018, and devices were seized from his flat, including his phone with the images on it.

There were 339 still and 133 movies at Category A; 258 stills and 25 movies at Category B; and 1,256 still and 42 movies at Category C.

The jury was told that Plummer used the names “Vile Degrader” and “Ronin.”

He had made searches for “rape, raping and raped,” it was alleged.

“He had an unhealthy interest in rape as well as child pornography,” Mrs Reevell said.

An audit of a police computer system had found that Plummer had been looking at sex-ual offences and cases involving indecent images of children, the jury was told.

Mrs Reevell said his employment had nothing to do with these sorts of investigations but he was trying to assist in the covering up of his offending.

Plummer told investigating officers he was into BDSM but the indecent images and prohibited images of children were nothing to do with him. His case is that he wasn’t responsible for any of them, the jury was told.

Judge Neil Clark said the case would last up to three days.

The trial continues.