Two Putney men who were part of a paedophile ring have been jailed for possession of indecent images of children.

John Morrison, 45, of Upper Richmond Road, was sentenced to two years in jail at the Old Bailey on July 15 after pleading guilty to possession of indecent photos of a child and failure to disclose a computer password.

John Parratt, 63, also of Upper Richmond Road, was found guilty of the same charges and received a 12 month sentence.

They belonged to the group led by Steven Freeman, of Arnulf Street, Catford, who would host weekly meetings at his address where he would share indecent images, videos and drawings of children, the court heard.

The 57-year-old, an ex-committee member of former international organisation the Paedophile Information Exchange (Pie), had pleaded guilty to possession of indecent photographs of a child, distribution of indecent images of a child, failure to disclose a key to protected information and possession of prohibited images of a child.

He was jailed for a minimum of 30 months.

Around 14,500 pictures and films were found on computer disks at Freeman’s home and at the address of two members of his paedophile ring.

The images were described at the Old Bailey as "vile and disgusting" and were among the worst police had seen.

Prosecution barrister Mark Gadsden told the court around 3,000 hand drawn images of children were discovered, "some of them unfinished, some in colour and some in black and white".

Police officers also found a computer game in which the primary objective was to have sex with as many schoolboys as possible.

A board game with the same rules was also discovered where extra points were awarded for particular types of sex.

Another member of the ring, Barry Cutler, 60, of Porchester Mead, Beckenham, was jailed for 15 months after pleading guilty to possession of indecent photographs of a child and failure to disclose a key to protected information.

Leo Adamson, aged 49, from Vauxhall, was found guilty of failing to disclose a key to protected information and was previously jailed for 12 months.