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A disgraced ex-councillor whose political career was cut short when he was caught with child abuse images has walked free after a fresh criminal charge alleging he had downloaded more obscene material was deserted.

Convicted paedophile Michael Jamieson, who resigned from the Perth and Kinross Tory group following his arrest in 2017, was due to stand trial this week at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

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A teenager from Dunfermline is under supervision and on the Register after being caught with a sick stash of child abuse images on his phone.

Calin Schreiner pled guilty to possessing indecent photos of children between November 18 2021 and July 30 2022.

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A Perthshire roofer was caught with a hidden cache of child abuse videos in which victims were as young as four years old.

Liam Thornber was placed on the Sex Offenders Register when he appeared at Perth Sheriff Court and admitted having obscene files stored on his phone over a 10-week period.

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A Dunfermline man sent an indecent image to someone he thought was a young girl.

However, the recipient of Ernest Nicholson’s photograph was, in fact, an undercover police officer.

Nicholson, 58, of Berry Law Place, appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

He admitted that between January 9 and 16 last year, he sent an image of a naked penis via social media to someone he thought was a child but was, in fact, an undercover police officer, and thus attempted to cause a child to view a sexual image.

He also sent sexual written communications to someone he thought was a child and thereby attempted to communicate indecently with a child.

Sentencing was deferred until March 14 for reports. He was put on the sex offenders register.

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A Dunfermline man was caught with a sick stash of child abuse material, which included children having sex with animals, after meeting fellow paedophiles on Twitter.

Ian Dunbar’s stockpile of sick images and videos depicted boys and girls aged between three and 12 being raped.

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A former football coach from Dunfermline has been convicted of sexually assaulting young boys who he had befriended while running a soccer academy in the Highlands.

Mark McAuley, 33, of Pitdinnie Place, broke down in tears when he was found guilty after a trial at Inverness Sheriff Court and told he's facing a prison sentence. 

The former Celtic youth coach, who also worked with Alloa Athletic, was convicted of two charges of sexually assaulting a child, two charges of directing sexual verbal communications to children and of engaging in sexual activity with or towards a child.

The sexual offences were committed between June 2016 and April 2019 and took place in properties in Dunfermline, Tain in Easter Ross, Edinburgh and a car on the A9.

A jury took two hours and fifteen minutes to return majority verdicts on all five remaining charges.

McAuley broke down when he heard he had been found guilty. Family and friends in the public gallery also sobbed as his bail was continued by Sheriff Elidh Macdonald.

The sheriff told him: "The court will be considering a custodial sentence."

She ordered him to co-operate with a social background report and a sex offender's programme assessment. He will return to Inverness Sheriff Court on July 4 for sentence.

McAuley had worked for Celtic's international academy for around a year after setting up his own football coaching enterprise, the Do Soccer group, in Tain.

The court heard that he would prey on boys with vulnerabilities.

Two of the youngsters were from broken homes, he took them on trips and for meals and would then molest them outwith the presence of other adults. McAuley also shared a bed with his victims.

One boy told how the coach would take off some of his clothes, grab his penis after pushing up his shorts and massage his thighs while they shared his bed in a cottage near Tain.

Another boy said McAuley also massaged his thighs while in the same bed.

Two more of his players said the coach asked them about their sex lives and spoke graphically about sex acts.

Fiscal depute Susan Love told the jury: "He was in a position of trust and he abused that trust to sexually assault two of his students - his favourites - having installed himself in two families who were going through a hard time."

His defence counsel, Wendy Culross, asked the jury to believe her client that "nothing sinister went on".

She said there had been bad judgement and McAuley told the jury he would do things differently now.

He admitted sleeping in the same bed as the boys because "there was no alternative in my one bedroom cottage" and giving two of them massages "in the sporting context".

He denied there was sexual motivation but the jury didn't believe him. 

McAuley was placed on the sex offenders register and he is now facing a jail sentence.

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A 27-year-old Dunfermline man sent a picture of his penis and a video of himself carrying out a sex act to someone he thought was a 12-year-old girl.

James Waite asked the “child” – who was actually an adult decoy – if she “liked his willy”.

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A DUNFERMLINE lady flashed a knife as she yelled in the street after bombarding a guy with sex texts following a room-renting fraud.

Louise Ramsay, 34, of Kellock Avenue, appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court for sentence on a number of charges.

She previously admitted to stealing 340 in cash on December 1st of last year, 525 on February 12th, and 350 on February 28th of this year.

She also stated that on March 7, she sent a guy a series of sexually explicit text messages.

Ramsay also acknowledged to shouting and swearing while wielding a knife on Christmas Eve at Abel Place.

Ramsay has previously admitted to stealing money from customers after advertising her spare room for rent on Craigslist.

One of the victims was also subjected to sexually explicit texts.

"The thefts relate to the accused renting out a spare room at her home." depute fiscal Jill Currie earlier told the court.

People would agree to stay there and pay a deposit, but they would not be permitted to move in until they were repaid.

Ramsay advertised the hotel on the 'Spare Room' website as well as on Facebook.

In one case, after paying for the accommodation, a young guy began getting erotic texts from Ramsay.

According to the deputy, he felt "uncomfortable" and "asked her to remain professional."

She then requested additional money from him, but he declined.

Her sex texts kept coming.

Youre grown-up for your age but I like that, she said, adding that his youth "turns me on."

Before going into graphic detail, Ramsay made jokes about his genitalia and stated she could teach him a thing or two

According to the deputy, she proceeded in this vein, and the man felt this was extremely inappropriate

He demanded his money returned, but Ramsay provided a series of reasons as to why she wouldn't be able to do so in the coming weeks.

Ramsay was shouting and screaming on the street on Christmas Eve, clutching a knife that she flung to the ground and picked up multiple times.

She was shouting: Ive got mental health.

Defence solicitor Alexander Flett said: She seems to have got it into her head that she was being followed. She had taken cocaine to excess. Its a fairly sad tale.

The social work report advised that Ramsay be sent to a mental institution for her own benefit, but Sheriff Charles Macnair declared he would not do so.

He instead imposed an eight-month restriction of liberty order on Ramsay.

He also sentenced her to pay 900 in damages to the three persons who lost money in the fraud, as well as putting Ramsay on the sex offenders' registry.