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A highly dangerous sex offender has been jailed for 160 days after he formed a secret, banned relationship with an unsuspecting woman.

The 23-year-old woman was charmed by a plumber's mate who attended her flat to carry out work, but was unaware of Kieran Dorian's sinister background.

She had no idea Dorian was on the sex offenders register for life and is a serial stalker who has plagued at least six women over a number of years.

Dorian returned to a neighbour's flat for work after the initial meeting with the woman and repeatedly engaged her in innocent conversation as she sat in the sunshine outside.

Today at Dundee Sheriff Court he admitted breaching strict terms of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order in March this year. He admitted ignoring a ban on him forming any relationship with a woman without advising his supervising officer.

Fiscal depute Gavin Letford told the court: "She is 23, resides alone and contacted her letting agent due to an issue with her taps. A plumber attended with the accused.

"The accused occasionally put his head in and asked about her work and engaged in general chit chat. On March 17 she met him a second time when she was sitting in a chair outside the flat.

"He was carrying out work in another flat. He noticed her and engaged her in conversation again. He stated that one day he would pop down and have a beer with her.

"He gave her his number and said his name was Kieran. They texted back and forwards on a range of subjects. On March 19 he asked if she wanted to do something and she agreed.

"On March 27 she contacted police to report an alleged offence which had taken place when he was at her home. He was subject to investigation by police and his phone was seized."

Screenshots of their conversations were sent to police and despite initial denials, Dorian finally conceded he had met the woman in Dundee without getting prior approval.

Solicitor Jim Laverty, defending, said the initial meetings had been innocent and Dorian's criminal offence was failing to alert his supervising officer in time.

He said Dorian had been talking to the woman as he carried gear in and out of the property and had later been exchanging texts about the genre of music they liked.

"He should have advised his supervising officer he was communicating with her," Mr Laverty said. "He has been in custody since March 29 and this has been a salutary experience for him."

Sheriff Gregor Murray said: "Your list of previous convictions confirms that since 2016 you have been subject to a number of orders from the court.

"You were very well aware from five years ago that you were under review. The SOPO was granted four years ago and that was very strict in its terms.

"That recognises that you are a person who is dangerous and any relationship you have has to be openly explained - most importantly to the lady involved so she is aware of your background."

In 2019, Dorian was jailed for three years for bombarding the social worker tasked with monitoring his behaviour with filthy phone calls and texts.

He also admitted stalking another woman for more than three-and-a-half years after becoming obsessed with her and harassing her online and in person.

Those two victims were the fifth and sixth women he had admitted stalking over a seven year period.

Dorian dodged jail in 2017 after he admitted stalking four separate women - with a community payback order imposed placing him under supervision.

Jailing Dorian in 2019, Sheriff Alastair Brown said: "Your behaviour was entirely self-centred. You can't continue to think the whole world revolves around you."

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A former police officer who downloaded child rape videos while he was in the force has been jailed for a year.

Derek Kennedy was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register for ten years after being caught with thousands of sickening child porn images.

Detectives discovered nearly 5,000 child porn images and over 18 hours of graphic video footage when they carried out a raid on their ex-colleague's home.

Kennedy, who was serving with Police Scotland when he started downloading illicit material in 2016, initially claimed he had downloaded images by accident.

But analysis of the haul on his devices showed he had filed them in specific folders and installed special equipment to try and hide the material.

He told officers "something in the back of my mind made me keep them" when they found a number of the depraved pictures on his mobile phone.

At first he denied having a sexual interest in the material, but was later found to have stored and backed up a large haul of images and videos over three years.

Kennedy, 34, from Dundee, admitted downloading child porn at his home in Butters Road, Dundee, between 10 August 2016 and 16 July last year.

Fiscal depute Eilidh Robertson told Dundee Sheriff Court: "He has no previous convictions.

"He is 34 and is currently unemployed.

"On 29 August 2019 the police carried out a search at the accused's home and seized a mobile telephone.

"Indecent images of children were recovered during preliminary analysis.

"He was arrested and taken to police HQ in Dundee.

"He admitted he had downloaded indecent images of children, but had not done it intentionally and couldn't understand why he kept them.

"He said 'something in the back of my mind made me keep them.'

"He admitted masturbating to the images but said he had no sexual interest in children."

She said two laptops and the phone were seized and Kennedy was found to have moved the porn haul into various folders on the devices.

"There was evidence he had copied some from one laptop to another and had also copied some on the phone into a specific folder.

"Peer-to-peer file sharing software had been used to search and download indecent images of children.

He had privacy tools on one laptop and was using the Tor browser to enable anonymity."

Ms Robertson told the court that Kennedy was caught with 4,707 indecent images and 1,118 child porn videos featuring children from infant age up to 15.

"The images featured both males and females, but mainly females.

"The videos had 18 hours, six minutes and 40 seconds total run time."

She said the bulk of the material was defined as Category A - the most serious, and featuring scenes of child rape, bestiality and sadism.

Solicitor Theo Finlay, defending, said: "He has been in employment fairly regularly throughout his adult life and was a serving police officer.

"He had to resign for medical reasons.

"He has had a history of mental health difficulties."

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Paul Brownlee, who has worked for the likes of Wave 102 and Radio Forth, previously fronted events with stars such as the Cheeky Girls. A local radio DJ who was found with more than 600 indecent images of children on his computer has been spared jail. Paul Brownlee who has worked for Wave 102 in Dundee, Radio Forth in Edinburgh and Borders Radio was sentenced to two years supervision in the community and 200 hours of unpaid work. The DJ is a familiar face around the country due to his radio work and has fronted events with stars such as the Cheeky Girls. At a previous hearing Dundee Sheriff Court heard that Brownlee, 47, was a manager at Specsavers in St Andrews at the time of his arrest last April. He had no previous convictions but police, acting on a tip-off that indecent images of children might be found on devices at his home, raided last January. Brownlee, who now lives with his mother in the Borders, was in the flat with his partner and her child. Following a search by officers, his laptop was seized and passed on to the forces cybercrime unit. It contained contain 663 inaccessible indecent images of children including 16 category A, 30 category B and 617 category C images. Brownlee later admitted making the indecent photographs between January 2018 and January 2019. Stuart Hamilton, who represented Brownlee on Wednesday, said his client had demonstrated an appropriate understanding of the seriousness of the offences. Social work reports said Brownlee posed limited risk to the public and there were no protection issues. Sheriff Lorna Drummond told him that because he was a first offender and the number of images was in the 100s rather than the 1000s that she would not jail him. She said the community payback order was a direct alternative to custody and as well as his sentence she placed him on the sexual offenders register for two years.

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A "manipulative" art teacher has been convicted of a string of indecent and sexual assaults against female pupils. A court heard James Skelton Smith, 57, would regularly drop his pencil in order to crawl under desks in class. After a three-day trial Smith, of Dundee, was found guilty of indecent assault, sexual assault, and breach of the peace. The offences took place against current and former pupils over an 11-year period between 2008 and 2019. Sheriff John Rafferty deferred sentence until next month for background reports. He told Smith: "I found the Crown witnesses to be credible and reliable, in the main exceedingly impressive witnesses, and in some instances courageous witnesses. "The case against you is compelling." Creepy Smith showed no emotion as the verdict was announced. The court heard he had been suspended from the school, where he had worked as a part-time teacher for expressive art, for nine months and would now lose his job. During the trial, three young schoolgirls said "creepy" Smith would repeatedly drop his pencil and crawl under their tables on his hands and knees, staring at their legs. One woman said she left school early in her sixth year in 2009 because she "started getting the feeling that he was nudging our relationship somewhere I didn't want to go". Another former female pupil said she had "played dead" after Smith, who taught at the school for 25 years, touched her inappropriately when she went back to his house after meeting him in Dundee. Smith denied all the charges and described the account of a 17-year-old pupil he kissed as "Alice Through The Looking Glass". But prosecutor Laura Bruce said: "He treated her in a way that made her feel grown up and feel special - and then he pounced."

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A serial sex attacker has been jailed for seven years for raping three sleeping victims over a five-year period.

Matthew Ferguson carried out sex attacks on teenagers at houses in Galashiels and his home town of Dundee, beginning when he was aged only 16.

The 24-year-old had earlier denied a series of charges but was found guilty after a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh of an indecent assault and three rapes committed between March 2011 and April 2016.

In all four cases, his victims were said to have been asleep and incapable of giving or withholding consent.

Ferguson, of Wellgrove Street, Dundee, was put on the sex offenders’ register for an indefinite period.

His youngest victim was only 13 when he first sexually assaulted her, and months later he raped her after she’d turned 14.

The woman, now 21, told the court that she first fell victim to Ferguson when she was staying overnight at a house in Galashiels as a guest at a party.

She later told police that Ferguson had entered the room where she was sleeping and molested her.

She said that on a second occasion when she was 14 he targeted her again. “I am a very heavy sleeper and groggy when I come to. It took me a minute or so to realise someone was lying on top of me,” she said.

She told officers that she felt discomfort and a burning sensation and found it slightly difficult to breathe because of the weight on her.

The victim said she was crying when she later told her father what Ferguson did to her. She said a woman then gave her a morning-after pill.

A second victim, also now 21, told the court that in spring 2016 she was staying with her then boyfriend at a bedsit in Dundee when Ferguson visited.

She said he and her boyfriend were talking and she fell asleep after midnight.

She said Ferguson went to sleep on the floor, but she told advocate depute Richard Goddard that the next thing she remembered after nodding off was “someone on top of me”.

The woman told the court: “I was lying on my back, and I never lie on my back.”

She said she did not want to open her eyes, saying: “I was too scared.” She woke up to hear her boyfriend shouting: “Get off her,” and Ferguson was still on top of her when she heard those words, she recalled.

She said she was scared of Ferguson “in case anything else happened”, adding: “I thought I had been raped.”

Defence solicitor advocate Iain Paterson told today’s hearing: “He intends to take every opportunity afforded to him in the prison system to reduce his risk of reoffending in the future.”

“Young individuals do change and do mature, and as he grows older he will mature and clearly make better decisions in his life.”

Judge Lady Ailsa Carmichael told Ferguson: “I take into account that you intend to use your time in prison to address your offending.”

She said she took particular account of his age when the crimes were committed and acknowledged that he was “still a child” at the time of the earliest offences.

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A convicted Dundee sex offender who searched the Internet for “extremely graphic” images of toddlers being abused has avoided being jailed for life.

 

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In a recent court ruling, a 54-year-old youth leader from Dundee has been handed a community service order following his conviction for sexual offences involving underage girls under his instruction.

Iain Buik, residing on Balmedie Drive, faced sentencing at Arbroath Sheriff Court after a guilty verdict on charges of lewd and libidinous behaviour. The offences targeted girls between the ages of 12 and 16 and occurred over a period spanning from December 2008 to May of the previous year.

During the proceedings, Sheriff Derek Pyle addressed Buik directly, emphasizing the gravity of the case. "I think this was a serious matter," the sheriff stated. He acknowledged Buik's denial of wrongdoing, noting, "I realise you don’t think you did anything wrong and you are entitled to take this case elsewhere." However, Pyle expressed confidence in the victims' testimonies, adding, "I have no doubt that what the girls said was right and an appeal would be unlikely to succeed. In this case it was down to who I believed and I have no hesitation believing the girls."

The sheriff also took into account Buik's background, highlighting that he had no prior court involvement and had dedicated time to voluntary work throughout his life.

As a result of the conviction, Buik was ordered to complete 100 hours of community service. Additionally, he has been required to register as a sex offender for a duration of five years.