A convicted paedophile has been jailed after he was found with more than 2,600 images of children.
Malcolm Glennie, 54, had his Kemnay home raided by police on May 25 last year during which officers found thousands of images of children and hours of video on a Motorola mobile phone.
The pictures featured children as young as one.
More than 26 hours of video footage was also found and seized.
Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard that Glennie, who was still on the sex offenders register, was convicted of the same crime in 2013.
During the police raid, Glennie’s wife was heard asking him if he had done “this” again, to which he replied: “I’m sorry. I’m damaged, so damaged.”
Thousands of images and hours of video found
Fiscal depute Brian Young told the court that police arrived at Glennie’s house in Kemnay with a search warrant and were let in by his wife.
Mr Young said: “The accused thereafter produced a black Motorola mobile telephone from the pocket of a chair he was sitting in and provided this to the police.”
Upon being examined, the phone was found to contain 2,607 images of children of which nearly 500 images and 350 videos were Category A.
A further 830 images and seven videos were found that were Category B and 664 images and 94 videos that were Category C.
The pictures contained both boys and girls aged between one and 14-years-old.
Glennie pleaded guilty to one charge of downloading indecent images of children and a second charge of possessing images of children between February 14 2019 and May 25 last year.
Accused had ’emphatically passed’ jail threshold
Defence agent Iain Jane told the court that Glennie had been working with a number of sexual offender programmes since 2013 and had found them “invaluable”.
However, he added that a report into Glennie stated that due to his previous conviction and secretive nature “he presents a risk of reoffending that is quite high”.
“Mr Glennie understands that a custodial sentence is at the forefront of the court’s mind and that given his record and behaviour that will be the most likely outcome,” Mr Jane said.
Sheriff Andrew Miller told Glennie that the “court recognises that any offending of this nature is a serious matter on the basis that searching, accessing and looking at these images of child abuse is an activity that contributes to the demand for these appalling images.”
Sheriff Miller added that Glennie had “emphatically passed the threshold” for a prison sentence.
He sentenced Glennie, of Fraser Place, Kemnay, to 30 months imprisonment and placed him on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
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