A TINTAGEL man has been jailed for 15 months for possessing extreme indecent images.

Forty-four-year-old Jerome Dangar, publican at the King Arthur’s Arms in Tintagel, was arrested on November 2.

This week he appeared at Truro Crown Court and was jailed for 15 months for the possession of extreme pornography of acts that portrayed threatening a person’s life.

Mr Dangar was found with images and videos on a mobile phone that was seized in May last year. This led to his arrest in November.

The court heard that the images showed ‘pre-occupation with strangulation, stabbing, torture, asphyxiation and death’, and many of the internet searches involved teenagers.

Mr Dangar’s defence said his reputation in the village was ‘crushed’ and that he had ‘lost everything’.

Mr Dangar was sentenced to 15 months for each offence to run concurrently, and made subject to a sexual risk order. An order was also made for his phone to be destroyed.