The paedophile former leader of Kingston Council has admitted breaching a court order by engaging in pornographic chats and watching obscene films online on multiple occasions.

Derek Osbourne pleaded guilty to entering online sex chatrooms 10 times between September 27 and November 9 last year.

The disgraced former Kingston Liberal Democrat leader also admitted accessing websites that contained pornographic films and images four times between September and October, and going on a gaming site that was “pornographic in nature” three times in April 2015.

The 62-year-old, dressed in a navy suit and open-neck pink shirt, spoke only to confirm his name and plead guilty to the three breaches of a sexual offences order when he appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court this morning.

Magistrate Justine Johnson told Osbourne he would be sentenced in a crown court since any prison sentence would likely exceed the 12 months she had the power to enforce.

She said: “This crosses the threshold that we have for custodial sentences. There is quite an extensive previous [record] and it is quite a complicated case.

"This matter is being sent to Southwark Crown Court for sentence at a date to be notified. It is my duty to remind you Mr Osbourne that you are under the conditions of the sexual offences order and those conditions will remain in place.”

Osbourne was leader of the council for more than a decade and served the borough as a councillor for 27 years before his arrest in June 2013.

He was sentenced to two years in prison in October 2013 after he admitted possessing more than 5,000 indecent images.

They included extreme sexual images involving animals, violence against women and children as young as three being raped.

He download and distributed them on online forums under the pseudonym Dave Strider.

Peter Zinner, the prosecutor in the 2013 case, described the images as “stomach churning”.

The former Beverley ward councillor served a year of his sentence in Brixton and Wandsworth prisons before being let out on bail subject to a sexual offences order.

When approached by the Comet outside the Wimbledon court Osbourne, of Burlington Road, New Malden, said he had “no comment” regarding the charges.

He has been released on bail until sentencing at Southwark Crown Court later this year.