Man jailed for downloading child porn

A man has jailed been after downloading more than 10,000 child pornography images and almost 64 hours worth of footage of children being abused.

Christopher Grant appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court earlier today after pleading guilty to the offences at an earlier hearing.

Grant took the illicit material from an online site while at his home in Aberdeen between September 11 and October 29, 2013.

Dozens of the pictures were rated “level 5″ by prosecutors – the most serious on the scale of child porn images.

The subjects were mostly girls, ranging in age from as young as six months to 15 years.

Sheriff Graham Buchan sentenced Grant to nine months in prison and placed him on the sex offences register for 10 years.