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A Dundonian who was confronted by paedophile hunters after he sent sexual images to what he thought was a 13-year-old girl will be monitored by social workers for years.

Forklift driver Andrew Galbraith, believed he was sending obscene images of himself and engaging in sex chat with a child.

He told her the youngster he was bored and horny.

However, he was actually chatting with an adult member of an online vigilante group.

First offender Galbraith, of St Mungo Terrace, appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court in July to admit three charges, including sharing vile images on social networking site Kik.

He sat sobbing in the dock as the details of his horrific crimes were read aloud at that hearing.

Galbraith returned to the citys sheriff court this week for sentencing.

Sheriff George Way followed the recommendation from social workers who had interviewed Galbraith since his pleas were accepted.

The sheriff placed Galbraith under supervision for three years, the maximum period available in Scotland.

Galbraith will be on the sex offenders register for the same length of time.

He must also complete the Tay Project, a rehabilitation scheme for sex offenders.

Snared by hunter decoy

Forklift driver Galbraith shared and was sent images of young children being abused, telling fellow perverts he had young pictures.

The decoy, identifying herself as Amber, told Galbraith she was 13, which did not deter him from sending sexualised conversations.

Amber was operated by a woman called Angela McAllister, a self-described child protection vigilante who snares paedophiles online.

Depute fiscal Lora Apostolova previously told the court: The accused is 26.

He was employed as a forklift driver at the time.

Angela McAlister used a decoy Amber, 13.

The accused initiated conversation on November 8 2020.

He engaged in sexually explicit conversation, sent pictures of his erect penis.

He was confronted by the hunter group.

The chat logs were highly sexual.

At one point he asks Amber if she would like to see his penis.

In another he told her he was bored and horny.

Sick chat with other perverts

Ms Apostolova told the court Galbraiths phone contained 17 images and 32 videos of varying categories of seriousness.

He had used the Kik messenger application to share pornographic and indecent images of children.

In March 2020 he sent a Category B video to another user.

He stated he had young.

Other users sent Category A, B and C images to him.

Galbraith pled guilty to inducing what he thought was a 13-year-old child to look at a sexual image and conversation, in order to gain sexual gratification or humiliation, between November 8 2020 and June 13 2021 at an address on Clepington Road.

He admitted two further charges of possessing and distributing indecent images of children, on the same date and time.

He hid behind a mask as he made his way from the court following his case being heard.

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A company director who volunteered at a leading private school has been jailed after being caught with a sickening horde of child abuse material.

David Rankine, who built-up a leading media firm, was given an extended three year sentence when he appeared in the dock at Perth Sheriff Court.

Rankine, 42, was well-known as a first aider who was often called in to offer treatment to young pupils at £14,000-a-year Dundee High School.

He jailed Rankine for eight months, with a further 24-months post-prison extended sentence, and placed him on the Sex Offenders Register for a decade.

Sheriff Duthie said: "Because of the gravity of the crime you committed a custodial sentence is the only appropriate disposal. You were part of the process of child abuse.

"People like you are creating a demand for material. You can properly be said to contribute to the pain and fear of children who are physically abused."

Rankine, one of the driving forces behind award-winning MTC Media, was caught with photos and videos featuring boys as young as four being sexually assaulted by adults.

Police descended on his Carnoustie home after a tip-off in early 2021 and seized a range of devices, including four laptops and two iPhones.

Analysists found around 750 illicit files, with about a third ranked as Category A for obscenity. Rankine resigned as a director at MTC Media weeks after his arrest.

The website-building company, which counts Scottish Water, Umbro UK and Brewdog among its clients, stressed he had not had an active role in the firm since 2018.

Rankine admitted possessing indecent images of children at his former home in Henry Cotton Place, Carnoustie, between 24 December 2008 and 21 January 2021.

Fiscal depute Alistair McDermid told the court: "Confidential information was received by Police Scotland that indecent images of children may have been held within a property.

"The accused answered the door and police were permitted access. A systematic search of the address was then commenced by four officers."

Four laptops, two iPhones, six hard-drives and a tablet device were seized and a preliminary examination discovered a series of illicit images.

The fiscal depute told the court 574 still images and 183 videos were found on the devices.

He said: "The male children depicted in these pictures and videos are between four and 16 years of age."

A spokesman for MTC Media confirmed that Rankine has not been a "director or employee" since March 2021.

The company began in 1999 but was relaunched by former Carnoustie High School pupil Rankine - as business development director - and two others five years later. The company now has a workforce of more than 100 people.

Rankine was a regular first aid volunteer at Dundee High School sports events. He administered first aid to boys of all ages at the Mayfield Sports Centre.

A spokesman for Dundee High School said: "We can confirm that first aid cover at our school sports fixtures is provided by St Andrew's First Aid, with whom Mr Rankine was a volunteer.

"We are not aware of any suggestion or evidence, at this stage, or any issue or concern regarding the conduct of Mr Rankine in his capacity as a volunteer."

He added: "The high school has strict child protection and safeguarding policies and procedures in place and as part of due diligence, require risk assessment and safeguarding protocols to be observed at all times."

A spokeswoman for St Andrew's First Aid added: "We have been aware of David Rankine's crimes and we have deep sympathy for those affected.

"While we cannot comment on any individual volunteers, we have the relevant safeguards and processes in place and take all matters pertaining to child protection extremely seriously."

A spokesman for MTC said: "We are all utterly shocked and appalled by the revelations around Mr Rankine. We condemn this in the strongest possible terms.

"Mr Rankine has not been involved in the business since 2018 and resigned as a director in March 2021. We were not aware of the reasons for the resignation as Mr Rankine refused to disclose this.

"However, given his lack of input into the business in recent years we were happy to accept. This was a tremendous shock to read this disturbing list of offences and our primary concern is first and foremost to our team and to anyone affected.

"We reached out to our team immediately to offer our support. We are glad to see that justice will be delivered appropriately for Mr Rankine's appalling crimes."

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A 21-year-old from Dundee is facing a lengthy prison sentence after being convicted of raping two underage schoolgirls at parties.

A jury found Jordan Pearson guilty of having sex with the two 13-year-olds at parties while they were intoxicated and incapable of giving or withholding consent.

Pearson was also convicted of having consensual sex with a girl who was aged 13 at the time and of sexually assaulting another young female.

The High Court at Livingston was told how the accused would turn up late at house parties and ask drunken schoolgirls to talk to him in private.

He then took them into a bedroom and raped them at addresses in Dundee during a course of criminal conduct between November 2018 and August 2019.

Giving evidence in his own defence, Pearson claimed he was the victim of a big set-up and denied that he had an unhealthy interest in young girls.

However, the jury heard he denied being at a party where one of the alleged rapes was committed until police showed him a video proving he was present.

One of his victims was so drunk she was sick in two rooms and had to be placed on a mattress by her friends, where predatory Pearson later had sex with her.

Three of the teenage girls alleged Pearson he had sent them photos of his penis and one of them claimed he had pressurised her into send him an intimate picture but the jury found those allegations not proven.

Bail refused

Following the jurys majority verdicts the court was told Pearson, of Gourdie Road, Dundee, had no previous convictions and has a full time job.

His defence counsel John Brannigan asked the court to continue the accuseds bail until sentence while background reports were prepared.

However, Judge Alison Stirling told Pearson: Having regard to the verdicts of the jury and the offences of which youve been convicted you are no longer an appropriate candidate for bail and youll be remanded in custody for preparation of a criminal justice social work report, to include a risk assessment, until 6 July 2022.

You will also be subject to the notification requirements of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.

I cant tell you the period you will remain on the register at this stage.

That will be decided when sentence is passed.

She also ordered the clerk of court to notify Scottish Ministers of Pearsons conviction under under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act, banning him from working with children and other vulnerable groups.

Pearson showed no emotion as the verdicts were read out or when he was escorted from the dock to the cells

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A man who sexually assaulted a woman in Dundee has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years.

However, background reports showed Javed Din is suitable for no other type of non-custodial punishment, such as unpaid work or compensation.

As such, he was admonished with no further requirement.

Din was previously convicted of carrying out the sex attack at the citys Pitkerro Road on September 24 in 2019.

The 50-year-old touched a woman on the leg, before touching her private parts.

His victim cannot be named for legal reasons.

Admonition an anomaly

Din, of Kingsway East, was convicted in 2020 and had been released to be of good behaviour.

He appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court on Thursday to be sentenced.

Sheriff Alison Michie explained the reports which has been produced ahead of sentencing provided incredibly limited advice on appropriate disposals for Din.

The sheriff explained the only remaining sentence of an admonition was something of an anomaly.

However, she explained Din would still be subject to the notification requirements of the Sex Offenders Register for five years.

Dins solicitor said: He understands this.

It was explained Din is recovering support from a mental health team.

The sheriff said: There are very few options available to to court.

I have considered all the various reports that have been provided. Ive not been offered any options for sentence.

Accordingly in the circumstances, taking altogether the offence, the date, your record and the reports, Im going to admonish you.

Dins period on the Register was backdated to November 2020, when he was first placed on it.

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A paedophile drove 400 miles to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex who he warned would "hurt the first time".

Christopher Marshall, 60, was found with a balaclava, knife and Viagra-style tablets in his car when he arrived in Derbyshire to meet a child who did not exist.

Marshall, who had also sent explicit photographs of his private parts a second 12-year-old girl, was caught in Chesterfield by a self-styled paedophile hunter group.

The dad-of-two from Dundee believed 'Leah' had run away from home but the teen turned out to be decoy and police were called to the arranged meeting place.

Jailing Marshall for three-and-a-half years, Recorder Michael Auty QC said: "There is a real and genuine concern to protect children from those who seek sexual intercourse with them. There is a world of difference between those who fantasise online and those who go through with it.

"It is where people stop and you didn't. It is clear to me from the items you had with you in the car there was an intention to carry out a penetrative sexual offence with this girl if the opportunity arose. That she was a decoy and not a real child is mitigation."

Jon Fountain, prosecuting at Derby Crown Court, sitting at Nottingham Crown Court, said a paedophile vigilante group called Demon Hunters set up a decoy Facebook profile for a 12-year-old called Tia in September last year.

He said Marshall sent her a friend request which was accepted and the two began exchanging messages. The prosecutor said the decoy told him she was unhappy at home and so he suggested she move in with him in Scotland, bringing her birth certificate with her.

Mr Fountain said: "He then made friends with one of her Facebook friends called Leah, who was also a decoy. He sent her photographs of his (private parts) and asked her if she would like to play with it.

"He asked her about her genitalia and this continued for about 10 days. She said she had run away from home and so he said he would come from Dundee to Derbyshire and meet her.

"But when he arrived in Chesterfield he was met by the hunter group. They called the police who arrested him, searched his car and found four Viagra-style tablets, a balaclava and a knife. He said he had the balaclava as it was issued at work and on checking, his workplace confirmed this."

Marshall, of no fixed address and who appeared over a video-link from HMP Nottingham, pleaded guilty to attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming, attempting to engage a child in sexual communication and possession of a bladed article. He has no previous convictions.

Fergus Malone, mitigating, argued that his client could be better managed in the community and not behind bars.

He said: "He lost his way. His mother died and his partner, the mother of his two children, also died in 2018. This has been his first time in prison and he is on a vulnerable person's wing."

As well as the jail term, Recorder Auty handed the defendant a lifetime sexual harm prevention order and placed him on the sex offender register for life.

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A Dundee man with profound learning difficulties is unlikely to face jail for raping a 13-year-old girl.

Robbie Thompson had non-consensual sex with the youngster at a gathering in the city’s Whitfield area in August 2020.

The 20-year-old was deemed unfit to stand trial, leading to an Examination of the Facts hearing at Dundee High Court earlier this year.

The case continued in Thompson’s absence at the High Court on Stirling on Wednesday.

A judge heard the extent of Thompson’s learning and mental health difficulties were more severe than first thought.

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A man dubbed one of Dundees most high-risk child sex offenders has been told he faces jail after being caught with multiple illicit laptops and phones even though police could not find any indecent images on them.

Serial offender Jamie Mullen, 37, appeared on indictment at the citys sheriff court.

He was placed on a decade-long Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) in Dundee in 2015 after being caught performing a sex act in the window of his Cowgate home.

As part of the order, Mullen is only allowed to own one phone and one laptop, along with a single email address and mobile number.

He has to keep them registered with police.

He has contravened his order multiple times, most recently in 2020 after being rumbled on image-sharing social media app Snapchat using the name Voyeurwatcher84, something he was banned from doing.

He appeared this week before Sheriff George Way to admit breaching the terms of his SOPO by having multiple devices.

Ban on computer equipment

Pervert Mullen, 37, of Cowgate, was kicked-out of the Army in 2006 after being caught with indecent images.

He spent time in a military prison and is currently on the Sex Offenders Register.

Depute fiscal Stewart Duncan told Dundee Sheriff Court this week: He is a high risk sexual offender.

He has a number of analogous offences.

He was prosecuted at Colchester Military Court for possessing indecent images of children and spent six months in military prison in 2006.

In November 2015 he was given a three-year community payback order and a 10-year notification requirement.

In September 2020 officers attended his property and found a new laptop he purchased.

In January 2021 police attended unannounced and the accused had a mobile phone.

Acting on intelligence, they were given a warrant which was executed that same month.

Searching his flat they found seven mobile phones, a laptop, a tablet and five thumb drives.

During examination, no images were found.

The crown moved for forfeiture of the items, which was granted.

Sheriff Way deferred sentence for reports, with Mullen ordered to return to court on May 16.

Further offending warning

In 2015, Mullen was convicted after performing a sex act at his open window in front of a distressed passing woman and possessing child abuse images.

Two former friends told The Courier at the time how they searched his computer after the exposure case and uncovered his sordid searches.

They said he had boasted he would get away with his crimes and told how they feared he would commit even more.

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A child molester from Dundee who began a series of horrific sex crimes when he was a 12-year-old boy has been jailed for a decade.

Stuart Rosss crimes began when he abused a five-year-old girl and spiralled to raping a woman.

He struck while his victims were asleep.

The 58-year-old was told by a judge he had shown no insight into the consequences of his actions.

He was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register for life.

Raped sleeping victims

Judge Lord Sandison said in the case of the young girl, her whole childhood had been marred by Rosss behaviour.

The crimes took place between May 1975 and April 1989 and were committed at different addresses across Dundee.

After touching the little girl, Ross went on to carry out sex acts on the child and subjected her to a rape ordeal when she was aged 13.

The court heard the youngster had fallen asleep but woke to find Ross on top of her, having sex with her.

The teenager said no and froze during the assault.

Ross went on to repeatedly rape an adult woman, who was subjected to two attacks, also when she was asleep.

The woman was later approached by police to give a statement after allegations against Ross began to emerge.

Continues to deny crimes

Prosecutor Leanne Cross said Ross had carried out a single course of criminal conduct starting at the young age of 12 and continuing into adulthood.

Ross, of Weavers Yard, had pled not guilty to a string of charges during a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh in December but was convicted of four offences of indecent conduct and five of rape.

He did not give evidence in his own defence.

He appeared by video link for sentence at the High Court in Stirling on Wednesday, sporting a long, flowing grey beard and wearing a prison-issue sweatshirt.

His advocate Lorenzo Alonzi said Ross maintained his position of denial.

He said: These offences all occurred over a certain period of his life, when he was aged 12 to 25.

Theres no suggestion of anything else.

He doesnt suffer from any mental disorder.

The court heard that in later life, Ross had been involved in a long term relationship with an American woman in the United States.

Lord Sandison told him: The long-term impact of sexual assault and rape cannot be overstated.

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A former toy shop worker caught with hundreds of indecent images of children as young as five has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register.

Grant Nicolson, 30, admitted downloading hundreds of depraved pictures and video of youngsters being forced to commit sexual acts.

Police raided the perverts Arklay Street home in 2020, following a tip-off.

Analysis of devices found included 774 inaccessible images: 232 at Category A, 99 at Category B and 433 at Category C.

Fewer than 45 minutes of depraved film and a handful of images remained accessible when police inspected his digital equipment, keeping Nicolson out of prison, Dundee Sheriff Court was told on Wednesday.

Sheriff Gregor Murray said sentencing guidelines meant he could place Nicolson on a community based order, including three years supervision and 180 hours of unpaid work.

He said: The bottom line is there is a low number of images and low length of video.

Sentencing

Addressing Nicolson, the sheriff added: You pleaded guilty to a serious charge.

I must take into account the period of time (since you appeared on petition), the number of images and the length of the videos.

I am directed (by sentencing guidelines) to give consideration to an alternative to custody.

You have been assessed as suitable to carry out (these alternatives).

You are a first offender.

You will be placed on a period of supervision.

You will also be placed on the Tay Project.

You will complete 180 hours unpaid work.

You will be subject to notification on the Sex Offenders Register for a period of three years.

Victims as young as five years old

Nicolson, who had shaved his hair and considerable beard between appearances at court, admitted his crime at an earlier date.

Depute fiscal Lora Apostalova told the court: At the time of the offence the accused was single and worked as a customer sales adviser at a toy store in Dundee.

The case called on petition on November 26 2020 and the accused has been on bail for the lifetime of this case.

She said: Intelligence suggested the accused might have indecent images.

Analysis of devices found included 774 inaccessible images: 232 at Category A, 99 at Category B and 433 at Category C.

Officers also found 37 minutes of video which were inaccessible.

The fiscal depute added: Accessible videos of Category C and A of a total of 42 minutes were recovered.

She added the ages of the children involved were between five and 15 years old.

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A married sex pest who attacked a woman and teenager has walked free from court after blaming his behaviour on an earlier car crash.

Dundee Sheriff Court was told Jordan Phillips, 32, carried out sexual assaults on the woman and the teenager.

A sheriff said he would not jail him after the court was told injuries he sustained in a car crash had been partly to blame for turning him into a sex offender.

Sheriff Paul Brown said: This are serious offences that merit a custodial sentence.

However, the information I have before me is unusual.

I am told by social workers and a clinical neuropsychologist that you suffered traumatic injury which has led to cognitive impairment and that has been a significant factor in your offending.

What that means is it significantly reduces the blameworthiness which attaches to you.

All of that means I am of the view there is an alternative to custody.

He placed Phillips under supervision and on the Sex Offenders Register for two years and ordered him to carry out 200 hours unpaid work in the community.

Non-harassment order

Phillips, of North Street, Dundee, was found guilty of sexually assaulting the teenage girl on various occasions by seizing her breast, buttock and thigh and ripping her tights in December 2019.

He was also found guilty of three charges of sexually assaulting a woman at various locations in Dundee between December 8, 2018 and November 22, 2019.

Solicitor Ross Donnelly, defending, told the court: Two things stand out here.

The first is the significance of his injury in his presentation and the commission of these offences.

Perhaps more pertinently, what is outlined is the doctors observation he now has an awareness of various strategies he can use in terms of recognising social boundaries.

Phillips was also made the subject of a non-harassment order prohibiting him from having any contact with either of his victims for two years.

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A 72-year-old man has been sentenced to five years after he was convicted of rape and sexual crimes at the High Court in Glasgow.

Gordon Gerrard, was convicted of rape and five other sexual offences, on 18 November, 2021. Today, he has been sentenced to five years for his crimes. This follows a two-year-long investigation by officers from Dundee's Child Protection Team. The offences were first reported to police in 2018.

Detective Constable Alan Shepherd said: I want to thank the three victims for their courage and resolve throughout this investigation and court case. Taking that first step of reporting abuse can be incredibly daunting and I want to commend them for their bravery in coming forward. They were subjected to abuse over a nine-year period, what they suffered is unimaginable and I hope that seeing Gerrard jailed brings them some sort of consolation now he is finally paying for his crimes.

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A Dundee sex offender who described the molestation of his underage victim as like “fumbling on a first date” has avoided prison.

Victor Don, 53, was given unpaid work, having pled guilty to indecently touching a 14-year-old girl.

The pervert, of Dundee, tried to claim the incident was similar to “light petting”, similar to a “fumbling teenager on a first date”.

Prosecutor Emma Farmer previously told a court Don and the child were the only people in the flat at the time of the incident.

“The accused entered the kitchen where the complainer was and, initially, everything was OK.

“However, the accused commented about how pretty she was.

“The accused has then touched the complainer on the bottom, before proceeding to unzip the top she had on, before putting his hands inside the top.”

Acted as if nothing happened

Se told Dundee Sheriff Court the attack continued for several minutes and moved from the kitchen to near a bedroom door.

Miss Farmer said: “The complainer said she was shocked at this and felt paralysed, given the close proximity to the bedroom door.

“She had significant concerns.

“All of a sudden, the accused stopped what he was doing.

“The complainer described it as though the accused had realised what he was doing was wrong.”

Don then told the girl to go to the living room, before “acting as if nothing had happened”.

Community order

When Don returned to court for sentencing, Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC was told in mitigation by defence solicitor Lee Qumsieh: “He did accept responsibility at the outset.

“He has been speaking with a therapist in Edinburgh and has done so voluntarily.

“He is described in the report as suitable for a community-based disposal.

“He is clear he will comply with any order.

“He is 53, with no previous convictions.

“It was a one-off but he accepts it is a serious charge.”

Banned from contact with under-17s

Sentencing Don to two years supervision and 180 hours community service, Sheriff Drummond said she would take into consideration his early plea of guilty.

She said: “There is a presumption against short sentences.

“I have read the criminal and social work report in full and I am satisfied there is an alternative to custody.”

Don will be required to register as a sex offender for two years and will not be allowed unsupervised contact with children under the age of 17.

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A paedophile sent explicit videos of himself to what he thought was a young girl, unaware she was really a grown woman hunting the internet for sex beasts.

Jon Duffy, 24, had no idea he was being duped by a vigilante group as he believed he was sending graphic messages to a 14-year-old girl.

Duffy found the childs profile on a social media site and approached her.

He quickly turned the conversation to sex.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard he continually pestered her to send him explicit photographs of herself and to film herself carrying out sexual acts.

When the girl refused, Duffy filmed himself carrying out a sex act and sent her the footage.

Duffy who had ignored warnings about the age of the person he thought he was targeting was arrested after members of the group turned up at his Dundee home to confront him.

He completely accepts his guilt

Duffy admitted that between September 1 and October 7, 2018, he repeatedly sent sexual messages and images to a woman pretending to be a 14-year-old girl.

He admitted trying to get her to send naked images, before sending nude pictures and videos of him carrying out a sex act.

Solicitor Jim Caird, defending, told the court: He completely accepts his guilt and takes responsibility.

In the three years since this happened he has to some extent withdrawn due to his anxiety about it.

There is hope that unpaid work might do something for his confidence in the community.

Sheriff Alison Michie told Duffy: You pled guilty to a very serious offence.

This is one which could certainly attract a custodial sentence.

She placed Duffy, of Pitkerro Court, under social work supervision for three years and on the Sex Offenders Register for the same period.

He was also ordered to complete 270 hours unpaid work as a direct alternative to custody.

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A highly dangerous sex offender has been jailed for 160 days after he formed a secret, banned relationship with an unsuspecting woman.

The 23-year-old woman was charmed by a plumber's mate who attended her flat to carry out work, but was unaware of Kieran Dorian's sinister background.

She had no idea Dorian was on the sex offenders register for life and is a serial stalker who has plagued at least six women over a number of years.

Dorian returned to a neighbour's flat for work after the initial meeting with the woman and repeatedly engaged her in innocent conversation as she sat in the sunshine outside.

Today at Dundee Sheriff Court he admitted breaching strict terms of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order in March this year. He admitted ignoring a ban on him forming any relationship with a woman without advising his supervising officer.

Fiscal depute Gavin Letford told the court: "She is 23, resides alone and contacted her letting agent due to an issue with her taps. A plumber attended with the accused.

"The accused occasionally put his head in and asked about her work and engaged in general chit chat. On March 17 she met him a second time when she was sitting in a chair outside the flat.

"He was carrying out work in another flat. He noticed her and engaged her in conversation again. He stated that one day he would pop down and have a beer with her.

"He gave her his number and said his name was Kieran. They texted back and forwards on a range of subjects. On March 19 he asked if she wanted to do something and she agreed.

"On March 27 she contacted police to report an alleged offence which had taken place when he was at her home. He was subject to investigation by police and his phone was seized."

Screenshots of their conversations were sent to police and despite initial denials, Dorian finally conceded he had met the woman in Dundee without getting prior approval.

Solicitor Jim Laverty, defending, said the initial meetings had been innocent and Dorian's criminal offence was failing to alert his supervising officer in time.

He said Dorian had been talking to the woman as he carried gear in and out of the property and had later been exchanging texts about the genre of music they liked.

"He should have advised his supervising officer he was communicating with her," Mr Laverty said. "He has been in custody since March 29 and this has been a salutary experience for him."

Sheriff Gregor Murray said: "Your list of previous convictions confirms that since 2016 you have been subject to a number of orders from the court.

"You were very well aware from five years ago that you were under review. The SOPO was granted four years ago and that was very strict in its terms.

"That recognises that you are a person who is dangerous and any relationship you have has to be openly explained - most importantly to the lady involved so she is aware of your background."

In 2019, Dorian was jailed for three years for bombarding the social worker tasked with monitoring his behaviour with filthy phone calls and texts.

He also admitted stalking another woman for more than three-and-a-half years after becoming obsessed with her and harassing her online and in person.

Those two victims were the fifth and sixth women he had admitted stalking over a seven year period.

Dorian dodged jail in 2017 after he admitted stalking four separate women - with a community payback order imposed placing him under supervision.

Jailing Dorian in 2019, Sheriff Alastair Brown said: "Your behaviour was entirely self-centred. You can't continue to think the whole world revolves around you."

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A former police officer who downloaded child rape videos while he was in the force has been jailed for a year.

Derek Kennedy was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register for ten years after being caught with thousands of sickening child porn images.

Detectives discovered nearly 5,000 child porn images and over 18 hours of graphic video footage when they carried out a raid on their ex-colleague's home.

Kennedy, who was serving with Police Scotland when he started downloading illicit material in 2016, initially claimed he had downloaded images by accident.

But analysis of the haul on his devices showed he had filed them in specific folders and installed special equipment to try and hide the material.

He told officers "something in the back of my mind made me keep them" when they found a number of the depraved pictures on his mobile phone.

At first he denied having a sexual interest in the material, but was later found to have stored and backed up a large haul of images and videos over three years.

Kennedy, 34, from Dundee, admitted downloading child porn at his home in Butters Road, Dundee, between 10 August 2016 and 16 July last year.

Fiscal depute Eilidh Robertson told Dundee Sheriff Court: "He has no previous convictions.

"He is 34 and is currently unemployed.

"On 29 August 2019 the police carried out a search at the accused's home and seized a mobile telephone.

"Indecent images of children were recovered during preliminary analysis.

"He was arrested and taken to police HQ in Dundee.

"He admitted he had downloaded indecent images of children, but had not done it intentionally and couldn't understand why he kept them.

"He said 'something in the back of my mind made me keep them.'

"He admitted masturbating to the images but said he had no sexual interest in children."

She said two laptops and the phone were seized and Kennedy was found to have moved the porn haul into various folders on the devices.

"There was evidence he had copied some from one laptop to another and had also copied some on the phone into a specific folder.

"Peer-to-peer file sharing software had been used to search and download indecent images of children.

He had privacy tools on one laptop and was using the Tor browser to enable anonymity."

Ms Robertson told the court that Kennedy was caught with 4,707 indecent images and 1,118 child porn videos featuring children from infant age up to 15.

"The images featured both males and females, but mainly females.

"The videos had 18 hours, six minutes and 40 seconds total run time."

She said the bulk of the material was defined as Category A - the most serious, and featuring scenes of child rape, bestiality and sadism.

Solicitor Theo Finlay, defending, said: "He has been in employment fairly regularly throughout his adult life and was a serving police officer.

"He had to resign for medical reasons.

"He has had a history of mental health difficulties."