A WIFE left her husband and will not have anything to do with him after police found his huge library of computer porn.

Robert Smith had 180,000 sexual or erotic pictures on two home computers, mostly of adults, York Crown Court heard.

David Garnett, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said 1,510 of them featured children.

The hoard was found after the Child Exploitation And Online Protection squad alerted North Yorkshire Police to Smith’s internet activity and detectives raided his home.

Smith, 37, of Old York Road, Barlby, Selby, pleaded guilty to 17 charges of downloading internet child porn and one of possessing child porn committed over several years. “It has had serious consequences as far as your wife is concerned,” the Recorder of York, Judge Stephen Ashurst, told Smith.

“She wants nothing more to do with you. She has disappeared with your teenage children. You are publicly disgraced because you have been found with this material.” He ordered the probation service to supervise Smith for the next three years with a condition that Smith goes on a sex offender treatment programme.

He also put Smith on the sex offenders’ register for five years and ordered him to pay £500 prosecution costs.

“Behind these images that you downloaded over the internet over a long period of time are images of real deeds of children being subjected to abuse,” he told Smith.

Mr Garnett said all but two of the child porn pictures were on the lowest level of the scale used to assess child porn.

The remaining two were at levels three and four of the five-level scale.

For Smith, Katherine Robinson said he had voluntarily sought counselling through his local doctor.

“He had expressed concern at his mental state that had led him to search for these imagines and download them.

“There is perhaps hope for the future in that regard,” she said.

He had no idea where his wife and children were, the court heard. He was in work, but had debts and was struggling financially.