An unrepentant paedophile downloaded indecent images of children less than 24 hours after a police raid on his home.
Repeat offender Christopher Nagle has appeared in court and admitted two charges of downloading and possessing a total of 878 still images of 18 videos of child abuse on his mobile phone.
He started amassing his sickening collection on February 6 2019 – the day after police swooped on his Lossiemouth home and found 280 indecent videos and images of toddlers and teenagers.
Nagle, of Ramsay Lane in Lossiemouth, pleaded guilty over those previous offences in February 2020 and was ordered to carry out unpaid work – but now he has appeared back in the dock on new charges.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard they were downloaded between February 6 2019 – the day after the previous police raid – and September 28, 2021. A third of the stills were of the most severe variety, with 13 of the videos also in the top category.
Fiscal depute Robert Weir told the court that police got a tip-off on August 10 2021 that a Snapchat and an email account were being used to obtain the material.
A search warrant was obtained and executed on September 28 and Nagle’s mobile phone was seized.
Defence solicitor Robert Cruickshank said that his client had completed all aspects of it other than the instruction to participate in a sex offender’s rehabilitation programme called Moving Forward Making Changes.”
“This may have been thwarted by Covid,” he explained to Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald.
Sentence was deferred until July 22 for a background report and Nagle’s bail was continued.
However the 26-year-old was warned by the sheriff that “all options” were open to the court, and that included a jail sentence.
