A notorious north-east paedophile has been caught again with sickening videos on his phone – including one apparently showing the murder of a toddler.
Jordan Gall – who has appeared in court on numerous occasions in connection with indecent images of children – had more than 93 hours of illegal videos on his phone.
Some of it depicted the rape and abuse of newborn babies and toddlers, Aberdeen Sheriff Court was told, as well as “more extreme” material.
Fiscal depute Lucy Simpson said his stash of abhorrent footage also showed a young boy, aged approximately three, being murdered.
Gall, 29, appeared from custody at Aberdeen Sheriff Court to be sentenced for 11 charges, including having indecent images of children and breaching his sex offender’s order.
Horrifying videos found on Jordan Gall’s device
Gall was found to have a cache of child abuse pictures and videos on a phone belonging to him between March 15 and August 18 2022.
The court heard that during a regular check on Gall’s home address on August 18 2022 police found a phone on which he had downloaded Snapchat – a breach of the sex offender’s register.
They also found he had been using various email accounts and usernames – also undisclosed to authorities and a breach of the register.
Fiscal depute Lucy Simpson told the court that on October 6 2023 a police cybercrime unit completed a search of the phone which contained videos and images with a total running time of 93 hours and 50 minutes.
Ms Simpson’s description of the video and images found on Gall’s phone – which our court reporter said was the most upsetting account of child abuse she had heard in her career – is too disturbing to report.
The fiscal depute told Sheriff Ian Wallace the nature of some of the videos, including rapes and physical assault on babies and toddlers, before describing in detail how a boy “aged around three” was murdered on camera.
It is unknown where or when this apparent murder took place and The P&J is choosing not to describe the method by which the child was killed.
Paedophile did not ‘seek out’ murder video
Gall’s device had over 1,000 category A videos, 241 Category B videos and 402 Category C videos.
Gall also admitted nine charges of failing to notify police of owning mobile phones, email address and social media accounts.
Gall’s defence agent Chris Maitland said when Gall had received the huge file of abuse videos, he did not know it contained a child’s murder.
Mr Maitland added: “The murder of a child and physical assault was not being sought out. The possession is accepted, but it was not what he was looking for.
“He had no control about what was sent to him.”
Mr Maitland went on to say Gall had only used Snapchat for messaging married men “who did not want to be discredited – it was not illegal as such.
“He is sickened by his behaviour.”
Sheriff Ian Wallace deferred sentence on Gall to clarify a recent appeal court decision relating to one of Gall’s previous convictions.
Gall will appear in Aberdeen Sheriff Court on July 18.