A BRIDGWATER man is to be sentenced next month after pleading guilty to possessing thousands of indecent images of children.

Paul Roberts, aged 48, of Rosebury Avenue in Bridgwater, pleaded guilty at Taunton Magistrates Court on Thursday, March 19 to possessing images of children which fall in to the Class A, B, C categories.

He is due to be sentenced at Taunton Crown Court on Friday, April 17.