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An online sex offender from Arbroath used a “Mr Bean” Facebook profile to engage in smutty chats with female teenagers.

Social media creep Norman Mathieson thought both teenagers he was talking to were 15.

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A paedophile caught with almost 12,000 videos and images of children being sexually abused used group chats to share the sick material.

Police raided Shaun Deuchars’ former home in Arbroath and uncovered a secret folder on his mobile phone.

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David Cook, 22, was placed on the sex offenders register for three years after police uncovered illicit material on his phone.

An Arbroath paedophile will be kept under supervision for years after he was caught with a sick stash of child abuse files on his iPhone.

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An Angus predator caught by a hunter group at Arbroath bus station as he waited to meet a schoolgirl from Glasgow has been placed on supervision.

Mark Falzon thought he had been grooming a 13-year-old but was actually being set up by the online paedophile hunters.

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A teenage predator who caused prolonged psychological trauma to his child victims has been jailed.

Richard Box, from Arbroath, raped a student and abused three under-age girls as part of a horrific course of conduct.

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An Arbroath thief who pilfered pants from washing lines in nocturnal raids will be supervised for two years.

Graham Orrock will be on the Sex Offenders Register for the same period, despite pleas his crimes were not sexually motivated.

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A highly dangerous sex offender has been banned from using dating apps for the next 15 years in order to protect potential victims.

Predatory paedophile John Johnstone was jailed for 30 months and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for life at Dundee Sheriff Court. A highly restrictive Sexual Offences Prevention Order was also imposed on Johnstone for 15 years - including a ban on using social media networks and dating sites.

Johnstone - who built a secret den behind a fireplace in his home as the centre of his sex offending behaviour - was described as being "very high risk." He admitted that between 17 May and 28 July 2020 he intentionally caused a 14-year-old boy to look at sexual images by sending him child abuse material.

He admitted that between 21 May and 27 July 2020 he made the same boy participate in sexual activity by forcing him to send pictures of his genitals to Johnstone.

Sheriff Paul Brown told him: "This is an instance of serious sexual offending, against a background of a record of similar offending. There is a degree of overlap with the previous offence.

"However, it is clear to me that this is a distinct matter that carries a greater degree of culpability and harm. There is no alternative to custody. I also consider that to protect the public from serious sexual harm I have to impose a Sexual Offences Prevention Order."

The SOPO severely limits Johnstone's online activities and bans him from having any unsupervised cntact with anyone under the age of 18. Sheriff Brown banned Johnstone from using social networks until after his 60th birthday and banned him from taking up "any hobbies" which might bring him into contact with children.

Counsel Iain Smith, defending, said: "He is assessed as being at very high risk of further sexual offending. It is so high, in the social worker's conclusion, that it is indicative of a well-established pattern of behaviour that requires corrective intervention."

The dark web beast had previously been jailed for 40 months in 2021 after he filmed himself abusing a young girl, before sharing it with other paedophiles. In that case, Sheriff Alistair Carmichael described Johnstone as "a committed user and maker of indecent images of children."

Farm worker Johnstone built a secret den behind a fireplace to store his vile haul of child pornography and used the dark web to distribute material worldwide. Evil Johnstone bragged to social workers that he had done no "actual harm" to the girl because she had been asleep while he was abusing her.

Sheriff Carmichael also placed him on the Sex Offenders Register for life and made him the subject of a five-year SOPO. That has now been trebled in duration.

The sheriff said: "You went to some lengths to try and hide computers and changed sim cards regularly, presumably to try and evade detection for what you were doing. You were a user of the dark web and employed quite sophisticated software kit to facilitate that.

"It seems to me you are a committed user and maker of indecent images of children and I see no alternative to a custodial sentence."

Solicitor Sarah Russo, defending, said: "He tells me he deeply regrets his actions. It is his position in the report that he wasn't doing any actual harm to the child because they were sleeping."

Johnstone, 45, took photos of himself carrying out sex acts and posing with sex toys next to a sleeping four-year-old girl. He then put them on paedophile sites on the dark web and asked others to send similar material back to him in exchange.

The court heard how he scoured Facebook and other social media to collect more than 400 images of another young girl he knew and had a fixation with. The twisted labourer was also caught with extreme animal porn and thousands of child porn images, and he had superimposed a head shot of one child onto a woman's body in an explicit sexual image.

Detective Chief Inspector Richie Banks, of Police Scotland's National Child Abuse Investigation Unit, said: "John Johnstone is a dangerous and predatory individual whose levels of hidden criminal activity over a number of years show he was not only a risk to children in Scotland, but worldwide.

"Online offenders may think they are anonymous, and they may not comprehend the terrible, devastating and lifelong impact their actions have on children.

"But there is no excuse for their actions. Online images of child abuse and exploitation are not virtual, they show the very real abuse of a real child."

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AN unqualified masseur who sexually assaulted a number of clients is behind bars.

Callum Urquhart, 38, assaulted women in either their own homes or his own. He was living in Bristol but visited clients in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.

He touched intimate parts of his victims' bodies under their clothes as well as removing the towel and exposing them while they were alone and on the massage table.

He also massaged their arms, moving their hands to touch him underneath his shorts.

The 38-year-old of Keptie Road, Arbroath, was jailed for three years for four counts of sexual assault and a further six months for another two cases of sexual assault at the hearing at Winchester Crown Court.

After the sentencing, DC Simon Rogers from Melksham CID said:

“I would like to thank the victims and witnesses for their bravery in coming forward and reporting these crimes.

“Each victim should have felt safe enough to receive a massage, but he took advantage of this and went on to sexually assault them.

“Urquhart had no formal qualifications but advertised under the company name of ‘Simple massage Bristol’.

“Although he advertised mainly in the Bristol area, he also visited clients in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire and that’s how he came to our attention.

“Crimes of this nature are taken extremely seriously by Wiltshire Police so I’d urge anyone to come to us if they are victim of a sexual assault.”

Sentencing Urquhart, Judge Angela Morris told him: “None of these women had agreed to receive anything apart from a conventional massage and on each occasion, they were vulnerable and exposed.

“You exploited the situation for your own sexual gratification.”

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A lecturer has been jailed after threatening not to submit a students coursework unless he sent him a naked photo.

Lewis Bryan, 29, also sent a series of indecent Snapchat messages to two former students.

He was this week sentenced to 27 months in prison at Dundee Sheriff Court and was placed on the sex offenders register for a decade.

Bryan was found guilty after a trial in February of two charges of coercing the men to look at sexual images and one charge of attempted extortion between January 2017 and March 2018.

As he was led away to the cells, he said: I didnt do it.

The court heard Bryan tried to blackmail one of the men by saying he wouldnt send coursework to the SQA unless he sent him indecent material.

He committed the offences while he taught the men then teenage school pupils at Dundee and Angus Colleges Arbroath campus.

The court heard one of the men felt traumatised.

Jurors were also shown a screenshot selfie of Bryan with the caption send nudes (obviously) which one of the victims said Bryan sent to him while he was teaching.

One of the victims said previously that Bryan, of Arbroath, sent lewd images with a partner, using emojis to cover his genitals.

The ex-pupil revealed he was able to identify Bryan in some photos by tattoos on his body from TV series Twin Peaks and video game BioShock that he had shown students in class.

Bryan, who was working as a chef before being jailed, returned to the dock for sentencing.

Paul Parker-Smith, defending, said Bryan continued to deny his guilt.

Sheriff Carmichael said: These charges are so serious that theres no option but to impose a custodial sentence.

Dundee and Angus College said after Bryans conviction that he had left in 2018 and declined to comment further.

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A disc jockey who subjected a man and woman with Down's syndrome to sex attacks in Moray has been jailed for five years.

Scott Sinclair, 41, who lived in Elgin at the time, was convicted by a jury.