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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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A high-risk sex offender who uploaded explicit footage to a social media site has been jailed for five years.

Gavin Cooper, 38, repeatedly raped a sleeping woman at a house in Dundee before going on to commit sex crimes against two other women.

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Paul Brownlee, who has worked for the likes of Wave 102 and Radio Forth, previously fronted events with stars such as the Cheeky Girls.

A local radio DJ who was found with more than 600 indecent images of children on his computer has been spared jail.

Paul Brownlee who has worked for Wave 102 in Dundee, Radio Forth in Edinburgh and Borders Radio was sentenced to two years supervision in the community and 200 hours of unpaid work.

The DJ is a familiar face around the country due to his radio work and has fronted events with stars such as the Cheeky Girls.

At a previous hearing Dundee Sheriff Court heard that Brownlee, 47, was a manager at Specsavers in St Andrews at the time of his arrest last April.

He had no previous convictions but police, acting on a tip-off that indecent images of children might be found on devices at his home, raided last January.

Brownlee, who now lives with his mother in the Borders, was in the flat with his partner and her child.

Following a search by officers, his laptop was seized and passed on to the forces cybercrime unit.

It contained contain 663 inaccessible indecent images of children including 16 category A, 30 category B and 617 category C images.

Brownlee later admitted making the indecent photographs between January 2018 and January 2019.

Stuart Hamilton, who represented Brownlee on Wednesday, said his client had demonstrated an appropriate understanding of the seriousness of the offences.

Social work reports said Brownlee posed limited risk to the public and there were no protection issues.

Sheriff Lorna Drummond told him that because he was a first offender and the number of images was in the 100s rather than the 1000s that she would not jail him.

She said the community payback order was a direct alternative to custody and as well as his sentence she placed him on the sexual offenders register for two years.

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A "manipulative" art teacher has been convicted of a string of indecent and sexual assaults against female pupils.

A court heard James Skelton Smith, 57, would regularly drop his pencil in order to crawl under desks in class.

After a three-day trial Smith, of Dundee, was found guilty of indecent assault, sexual assault, and breach of the peace.

The offences took place against current and former pupils over an 11-year period between 2008 and 2019.

Sheriff John Rafferty deferred sentence until next month for background reports.

He told Smith: "I found the Crown witnesses to be credible and reliable, in the main exceedingly impressive witnesses, and in some instances courageous witnesses.

"The case against you is compelling."

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Smith showed no emotion as the verdict was announced.

The court heard he had been suspended from the school, where he had worked as a part-time teacher for expressive art, for nine months and would now lose his job.

During the trial, three young schoolgirls said "creepy" Smith would repeatedly drop his pencil and crawl under their tables on his hands and knees, staring at their legs.

One woman said she left school early in her sixth year in 2009 because she "started getting the feeling that he was nudging our relationship somewhere I didn't want to go".

Another former female pupil said she had "played dead" after Smith, who taught at the school for 25 years, touched her inappropriately when she went back to his house after meeting him in Dundee.

Smith denied all the charges and described the account of a 17-year-old pupil he kissed as "Alice Through The Looking Glass".

But prosecutor Laura Bruce said: "He treated her in a way that made her feel grown up and feel special - and then he pounced."

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A paedophile caught downloading a sickening stash of child abuse images for the second time after a bid to rehabilitate him failed has been jailed.

Paul Ogilvie was previously ordered to complete a sex offenders rehabilitation programme in 2006 after being convicted of possessing indecent images of children.

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