Phone sex predator sold house to pay for 32,000 calls

A sexual predator sent up to 32,000 obscene phone calls and images of himself to children and adults he randomly called on mobile phones.

Royce Roberts, 42, of Caernarfon, spent £25,000 on the phone calls, text messages and pictures over eight months. At one point he was contacting strangers, many of them children, at a rate of a thousand a week. To fund his addiction he sold his home.