'I had to report my husband to police after discovering he is a paedophile'

A woman told how she reported her paedophile husband to the police after discovering he had a secret stash of indecent images of children. Terence Donovan was jailed after she made the shocking find on some old discs which she believed contained music.

While alone in the caravan the couple shared in Tenby, south west Wales, out of curiosity she loaded the CD into a computer and learned of her husband's secret, Wales Online reports. Donovan was later sentenced to 16 months in jail after admitting voyeurism and downloading more than 1,000 indecent images of children.

"At first I thought that they were mine and that I'd put music on them some time before, but they kept coming up with an error message," said Ann (not her real name), of the CDs. "When I switched to the photo option, I saw what was on them. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I just felt absolute horror."

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The first image showed a young woman in a shower. She had been secretly filmed through a peephole by Donovan. Ann realised it was her duty to tell police what she had just learned about her husband of almost 20 years. Donovan, 73, was jailed in October at Swansea Crown Court.

Although the discovery shocked her, Ann felt that certain things about her marriage suddenly made more sense. She had spent years ignoring a nagging sense that something wasn't right. "I felt like I was in a tunnel in that marriage. You think you must be imagining things but if you've got a gut feeling, you've got to act on it."

Ann first met Donovan in the early 1990s when they worked together at a store in Cardiff. Neither was single at the time and Ann does not remember speaking to Donovan much before she