A paedophile has been jailed for 19 years and six months for his "depraved and revolting" behaviour after filming himself abusing girls as young as eight on a trip to the Philippines.

Trevor Monk, 47, travelled to the Far East with the sole purpose of abusing children and kept thousands of indecent pictures and videos on his computer, including mementos from his trip.

Sentencing him for a total of 18 offences today at the Old Bailey, Judge Anuja Dhir told Monk that the consequences of child abuse of this kind "wrecks lives".

The court had heard how Monk gave "facilitators" thousands of pounds for access to the children during a two-week holiday to the Philippines in the spring of 2014.

Between December 2010 and November 2014 he also transferred a total of £14,740 via Western Union to accounts in the Philippines in exchange for live streams of the abuse of young girls.

An examination of computers, external hard drives and memory cards found at Monk's home revealed tens of thousands of indecent images and videos of children, and evidence that he had himself molested young girls in the Philippines.

Monk had pleaded guilty to one count each of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, assault of a child under 13 by penetration, and sexual assault of a child under 13.

He further admitted two counts of causing a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity, six counts of causing a child to engage in a sexual act, one count of intentionally encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence, three counts of making indecent photographs of children and three counts of possessing indecent photographs of children.