Latest Offenders Aberdeenshire

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A mum realised her partner was a “high-risk” paedophile after Googling his name and finding a Press and Journal story about his past crimes.

Troy Sutherland was placed on the sex offender’s register for indefinitely and jailed for 39 months in 2017 after blackmailing children to send him nude pictures.

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A Fraserburgh man caught with child sex abuse material involving toddlers told a decoy 13-year-old girl that “age is just a number”.

Michael Marnoch, 30, was snared by paedophile hunters and when police arrived to search his home they found a selection of indecent images of children and videos featuring a girl aged between two and three.

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An oil and gas worker has been placed on the sex offender’s register after he was caught with thousands of child sex abuse images.

Andrew Smith’s house was raided by police who found more than 3,500 images and hours of video footage across his electronic devices.

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A sex offender breached a court order when he befriended a mum at a foodbank and posed for a selfie with her 11-year-old daughter.

David Scott, known as Ritchie, previously admitted to asking underage teenagers to send him naked pictures and served two years in prison following the offence in 2017.

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An Aberdeenshire man who chatted with what he believed were five underage girls has been added to the sex offenders register.

Michael Burr was caught out by vigilante paedophile hunters who posed as young teenagers on fake Facebook accounts.

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Police Scotland acknowledge the sentence of nine years in jail given to a man who pleaded guilty to non-recent assault and sexual offences in the Buchan area of Aberdeenshire.

John Sinclair, 72, last month admitted to offences which took place between 1974 and 1980.

He was remanded in custody and was sentenced today (Thursday, 25 August) at the High Court in Aberdeen.

Detectives from Police Scotland’s National Child Abuse Investigation Unit (North East) led the investigation into the case and Sinclair was arrested and charged on 3 October, 2019.

Detective Inspector Anna Johnston said:

"We welcome the sentencing of John Sinclair and I would like to thank the victims in this case who assisted us with our investigation.

“The passage of time does not make these incidents any easier to talk about and their bravery is to be commended.

“I would like to take this opportunity to urge anyone who has or is being subjected to any form of abuse or harm to get in touch with the police and report it.

“We treat all reports seriously, with the utmost professionalism and sensitivity, no matter when the offence took place.

“Cases like this show that Police Scotland is determined to bring the suspects of these crimes to justice.”