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A sex offender was caught with an illegal smartphone after police noticed he had left the charger plugged in.

Ronald Young has multiple sexual offence convictions, including being caught twice in five months by undercover “paedophile hunter” groups after he went to Newcastle to meet what he thought was a 13-year-old girl.

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A convicted sex offender covertly attached a tiny camera to a woman's clothing so he could secretly film "upskirt" videos of her.

The illicitly filmed footage was found on Brian Cocker's mobile phone, along with a stash of child porn material filed as "Candid Teens." Cocker, 36, was banned from playparks and other areas frequented by children as part of a conduct order imposed at Perth Sheriff Court.

He was told to carry out 200 hours unpaid community work and was placed on the Sex Offenders Register and under social work supervision for three years. The court was told that the spycam material - which clearly identified a female known to Cocker - was found during a routine visit by police officers.

Cocker, from Perth, admitted that between 20 April and 19 July 2021 he operated equipment beneath a woman's clothing to enable himself to observe her genitals, buttocks or underwear. He admitted doing it to obtain images of her bending over and trying to photograph her genital area without her knowledge or consent.

He also admitted a charge of having indecent images of children between 25 November 2020 and 24 July 2021. Cocker was first placed on the Sex Offenders Register in 2014 for grooming a 15-year-old girl for sex in a course of conduct which led to him being jailed for ten months.

He plied the youngster with alcohol during "frequent" sessions, despite knowing she was under-age. Fiscal depute Elizabeth Hodgson said police called on Cocker at home and he handed over his mobile, containing the folder of sickening child porn images.

The children depicted were as young as 14, and a further probe found the voyeuristic pictures of the woman who had been "upskirted" by Cocker.

Solicitor Linda Clark, defending, said: "He has been engaging with the Stop It Now programme, of his own volition, attending 30 sessions on a voluntary basis. He has expressed significant regret and remorse. Mr Cocker has a previous conviction for similar behaviour from 2014. For ten years he has managed not to engage in that kind of offending.

"He appreciates that had the previous case been more recent, a custodial sentence would have been inevitable, but it has been ten years and there are alternatives available."

Sheriff Jennifer Bain KC: "I note from the reports before me that you are at medium risk of sexual reoffending. You will have been made aware that a custodial sentence was at the forefront of my mind."

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A senior project manager at power firm SSE has been caught with a cache of obscene child abuse images.

Police raided David Dickie’s Perth city centre home after learning illicit files were being downloaded to devices connected to the property.

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A 29-year-old man has been jailed for eight years after being found guilty of a number of serious sexual offences.

Ruaraidh McCartney was guilty of a number of serious sexual offences. on Wednesday, 5 July at the High Court in Glasgow.

The offences were committed in Stirlingshire and Perthshire between 2011 and 2021.

He was sentenced today (Tuesday, 1 August) at the High Court in Lanark.

Detective Inspector Forbes Wilson said: McCartney is a dangerous and predatory individual who has committed serious sexual offences against a number of women over an extended period of time.

His conduct has been appalling and I hope his conviction will allow the women involved to move forward with their lives.

I would urge anyone who has been the victim of sexual violence to come forward and report it to us, regardless of the passage of time.

We, working with partner agencies, will support you through the process, investigate thoroughly and bring those responsible to justice.

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A Perth paedophile who was exposed following a covert police operation has been spared jail.

Alan McDade sent explicit messages, selfies and graphic videos to what he thought was a 14-year-old girl called Beth.

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A violent stalker has admitted sexually assaulting two women in Perth city centre.

Creepy Barrie Cameron forced himself on his first victim as she walked home after a night out with friends.

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A paedophile who had sex multiple times with a schoolgirl was told his youth saved him from being locked up.

Creepy Kyle McLean admitted being engaged in sexual activity with his 15-year-old victim at his home in Alyth, while she was drunk and hungover.

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A paedophile who directed and recorded appalling sex attacks on young girls over the internet from his home Lochinver has been jailed for 12 years.

Gary Campbell, a former retained firefighter, paid for adults in the Philippines to abuse children as young as four as he watched it in "real time" on a livestream from more than 6000 miles away.

The filmed sex attacks included the rape of two girls aged eight and nine by an adult male who Campbell was told was 25. He said: "He is very lucky getting to do a show with these girls."

Campbell (59) paid as little as £10 ahead of sessions in which young girls were molested and performed sex acts for his gratification.

A judge told him at the High Court in Edinburgh on Friday: "You used the advantage of the comparative wealth of our society in order to pay people to corrupt children."

Lord Beckett said: "Over a period of more than two years you were intermittently sexually corrupting young children."

The judge said: "You will appreciate these are grave crimes indeed, for which there is no alternative to a prison sentence."

He ordered that Campbell should be under supervision for a further three years during which he can be returned to jail if he breaches licence conditions.

The judge told him that he would have faced a 15-year prison term but for his guilty pleas.

Campbell, now of Windsor Court, Perth, earlier admitted 13 charges including rape, sexual assault and inciting children to become providers of sexual services.

The sex crimes were committed between June 2012 and August 2014 while he was living at Culag Gardens, Lochinver.

Advocate depute Margaret Barron told the court: "On May 10 in 2021 officers from the National Child Abuse Investigation Unit in Inverness received information that on September 23, 2020, a female living in the Philippines had been arrested for producing, possessing and distributing indecent images of children and for livestreaming child abuse."

The prosecutor said: "Information was received that the accused Gary Campbell had made payments to this woman on 13 separate occasions."

Police seized a laptop, Macbook, iPod, USB sticks and micro cards from his home and discovered that he had a Skype account with the user name "gary24pucket".

The advocate depute said videos and chat logs that were recovered showed Campbell provided directions to adults in the Philippines to assault the children.

She said: "On occasion during the livestreaming of the assaults the accused advises those broadcasting the livestream if he is having difficulty seeing the children, which results in the children and adults repositioning themselves to enable the accused to see what is being done to the children."

The prosecutor said it indicated that Campbell was not only watching the children being abused in "real time" but that he was directing those in the Philippines to assault the youngsters.

During one Skype conversation with a Filipina woman he told her: "I am always excited to see young girls." In another call he asked another woman: "What is the youngest you can get me?"

The former water treatment operative was arrested by police in June 2021 and during an interview made "no comment" replies to questions.

Defence solicitor advocate Shahid Latif said Campbell was a first offender who has seen a psychotherapist and undertaken work to deal with the factors that led to the offending.

He told the court: "There is no doubt he is thoroughly ashamed and disgusted by his behaviour."

Campbell was told that he will be on the sex offenders' register indefinitely following his sentencing.

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Unpaid work for Perth paedophile who posted photos of local schoolgirls and shared sick rape fantasies on Grindr.

In one vile message, Innes said he got aroused every time he drove or walked past a school

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A SEX offender pensioner who once molested a horse has admitted sexually assaulting a teenager in a Perth McDonald's. Creep William Nicoll was placed on the sex offenders register in 2013 after he was caught with his hand up a horse's backside. The 75-year-old returned to Perth Sheriff Court last week and pled guilty to twice slapping a woman's bottom at McDonald's Dunkeld Road restaurant. He admitted sexually assaulting the teenager by slapping her buttocks and touching her shoulder on May 23 this year. As reported in The Courier, fiscal depute Andrew Harding told the court: "The accused went over to the complainer and said 'hello'. "He continued to speak to her, before tapping her twice on her left shoulder. "As the accused walked away, he slapped the complainer's bottom with an open palm. "Of course, this was reported to the police," Mr Harding said. Sheriff Euan Duthie deferred sentencing until July 13 for background reports. The court is also is considering a non-harassment order to stop Nicoll contacting his victim. Nicoll appeared in court nine years ago and admitted a sexually aggravated breach of the peace charge. The court heard he was spotted by children repeatedly inserting his hand into a horse's rear end in a field near Crieff. When confronted by foal's disgusted owner, he said: "I'm very lonely." Prosecutor Carol Whyte told the court the horse's owner was "physically sickened" by the incident. "He seemed so engrossed in what he was doing that he didn't see her and her children approach," she said. Nicoll will be sentenced for the sexual assault on July 13.

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