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A paedophile who had sex multiple times with a schoolgirl was told his youth saved him from being locked up.

Creepy Kyle McLean admitted being engaged in sexual activity with his 15-year-old victim at his home in Alyth, while she was drunk and hungover.

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A paedophile who directed and recorded appalling sex attacks on young girls over the internet from his home Lochinver has been jailed for 12 years.

Gary Campbell, a former retained firefighter, paid for adults in the Philippines to abuse children as young as four as he watched it in "real time" on a livestream from more than 6000 miles away.

The filmed sex attacks included the rape of two girls aged eight and nine by an adult male who Campbell was told was 25. He said: "He is very lucky getting to do a show with these girls."

Campbell (59) paid as little as £10 ahead of sessions in which young girls were molested and performed sex acts for his gratification.

A judge told him at the High Court in Edinburgh on Friday: "You used the advantage of the comparative wealth of our society in order to pay people to corrupt children."

Lord Beckett said: "Over a period of more than two years you were intermittently sexually corrupting young children."

The judge said: "You will appreciate these are grave crimes indeed, for which there is no alternative to a prison sentence."

He ordered that Campbell should be under supervision for a further three years during which he can be returned to jail if he breaches licence conditions.

The judge told him that he would have faced a 15-year prison term but for his guilty pleas.

Campbell, now of Windsor Court, Perth, earlier admitted 13 charges including rape, sexual assault and inciting children to become providers of sexual services.

The sex crimes were committed between June 2012 and August 2014 while he was living at Culag Gardens, Lochinver.

Advocate depute Margaret Barron told the court: "On May 10 in 2021 officers from the National Child Abuse Investigation Unit in Inverness received information that on September 23, 2020, a female living in the Philippines had been arrested for producing, possessing and distributing indecent images of children and for livestreaming child abuse."

The prosecutor said: "Information was received that the accused Gary Campbell had made payments to this woman on 13 separate occasions."

Police seized a laptop, Macbook, iPod, USB sticks and micro cards from his home and discovered that he had a Skype account with the user name "gary24pucket".

The advocate depute said videos and chat logs that were recovered showed Campbell provided directions to adults in the Philippines to assault the children.

She said: "On occasion during the livestreaming of the assaults the accused advises those broadcasting the livestream if he is having difficulty seeing the children, which results in the children and adults repositioning themselves to enable the accused to see what is being done to the children."

The prosecutor said it indicated that Campbell was not only watching the children being abused in "real time" but that he was directing those in the Philippines to assault the youngsters.

During one Skype conversation with a Filipina woman he told her: "I am always excited to see young girls." In another call he asked another woman: "What is the youngest you can get me?"

The former water treatment operative was arrested by police in June 2021 and during an interview made "no comment" replies to questions.

Defence solicitor advocate Shahid Latif said Campbell was a first offender who has seen a psychotherapist and undertaken work to deal with the factors that led to the offending.

He told the court: "There is no doubt he is thoroughly ashamed and disgusted by his behaviour."

Campbell was told that he will be on the sex offenders' register indefinitely following his sentencing.

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Unpaid work for Perth paedophile who posted photos of local schoolgirls and shared sick rape fantasies on Grindr.

In one vile message, Innes said he got aroused every time he drove or walked past a school

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A SEX offender pensioner who once molested a horse has admitted sexually assaulting a teenager in a Perth McDonald's. Creep William Nicoll was placed on the sex offenders register in 2013 after he was caught with his hand up a horse's backside. The 75-year-old returned to Perth Sheriff Court last week and pled guilty to twice slapping a woman's bottom at McDonald's Dunkeld Road restaurant. He admitted sexually assaulting the teenager by slapping her buttocks and touching her shoulder on May 23 this year. As reported in The Courier, fiscal depute Andrew Harding told the court: "The accused went over to the complainer and said 'hello'. "He continued to speak to her, before tapping her twice on her left shoulder. "As the accused walked away, he slapped the complainer's bottom with an open palm. "Of course, this was reported to the police," Mr Harding said. Sheriff Euan Duthie deferred sentencing until July 13 for background reports. The court is also is considering a non-harassment order to stop Nicoll contacting his victim. Nicoll appeared in court nine years ago and admitted a sexually aggravated breach of the peace charge. The court heard he was spotted by children repeatedly inserting his hand into a horse's rear end in a field near Crieff. When confronted by foal's disgusted owner, he said: "I'm very lonely." Prosecutor Carol Whyte told the court the horse's owner was "physically sickened" by the incident. "He seemed so engrossed in what he was doing that he didn't see her and her children approach," she said. Nicoll will be sentenced for the sexual assault on July 13.

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The co-owner of two Callander hotels who preyed on and abused female members of his staff is facing jail. Gary Adam, 35, used his power as the boss to intimidate and sexually assault two young women, Falkirk Sheriff Court was told. The incidents occurred at the Waverley Hotel and Crags Hotel, opposite each other on Main Street and both co-owned by Adam. Jurors heard the first woman had been working for Adam for only a week when he made a pass at her while she was in another pub playing pool, forcing her to tell him when she saw him at work that she didnt want to lose her job or have sex with him. Within hours, however, he asked her into the office at the Waverley Hotel on the ruse that she needed a new uniform T-shirt, pushed her against a wall, put his hand quite tightly round her neck, kissed her forcibly on the lips, and tried to put his hand down the front of her trousers. The woman told jurors he was growling or grunting in her ear and said he would snap her like a twig. She said on an earlier occasion he had snapped a pool cue in front of her. She left in shock and disbelief but later that night Adam sexually assaulted her again, touching her bum as she bent over to retrieve something. The day after the incident, which occurred in 2019, she gave her notice. The court heard Adam sexually assaulted another woman repeatedly in 2020 while she was working at the Crags Hotel. Weeping, she said he had followed her into a walk-in cupboard where she was fetching something, pulled the door so it locked behind them, then pinned her forcibly against the wall with two hands on her shoulders and tried to kiss her. She said she was frozen and scared and didnt know what to do, but suddenly a customer called from the bar, and she was able to leave. Later Adam, who had earlier been drinking with friends, returned alone and a bit more drunk and asked her for the key to one of the hotel bedrooms. He then texted a demand that she deliver a Peroni beer to the bedroom, and after she left it outside he opened the door, grabbed her wrist, dragged her in, pushed her back onto the bed, held her arms above her head and tried to kiss her. She said she just kept saying no and eventually he sent her away but refused to give her back her phone - which he had pushed away from her grasp on the bed. When he returned it later, the text message asking her to take beer to his room had been deleted. The court heard Adam later told the woman it would never happen again, but three weeks later after finishing her shift at the Crags she went over to the Waverley to see some friends and Adam approached her and asked her if she would give him a lift back to his home on the outskirts of Callander. She thought it awkward if she refused, but on the short drive he immediately asked her if she would stay with him in one of the hotel rooms. When she turned him down, he demanded she stop and let him out, but before she had even had a chance to turn off the car engine he climbed over, sat on top of her, forced her head back, and forced her mouth open with his hand. She said: He managed to get it open and put his tongue down my throat. I just sat there. I didnt know what to do. He put his hand in my leggings and under my underwear. His fingers touched my private area. Scared and disgusted, the woman managed to call a random number on her phone, and when Adam realised, he stopped and asked to be driven the rest of the way home. After a three-day trial, the jury found father-of-one Adam, a first offender, of Cambusmore, Callander, guilty of five charges of sexually assaulting the women. He described himself in evidence as a scumbag for cheating on his own partner, but denied the offences. He claimed that in some cases what the women had said did not happen, and when it had happened, it was with consent. Prosecutor Cheryl Clark said Adam had perpetrated a pattern of systematic abuse against the two young women, engineered situations to be alone with them, and used fear, intimidation, physical strength, and his powerful role as their employer to manipulate the situation. Sheriff Christopher Shead continued bail for reports. He placed Adam on the sex offenders register, and warned a custodial sentence would be considered. Adam will appear again on March 31. Defence advocate Wendy Hay reserved mitigation.

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A convicted sex offender who searched online "how to kill a woman" before stabbing a 23-year-old in the back has been given a life sentence. Brandon Bloice planned to rape his victim after stabbing her, but fled when she shouted for help. He struck in Carpenter Street, Perth, minutes after following another woman, who ran away. Bloice, 23, was given an Order for Lifelong Restriction, and must serve a minimum of four years in jail. The order means he will only be freed when the authorities deem he is no longer a risk to the public. Bloice previously admitted attempting to murder the woman with intent to rape, as well as threatening and abusive behaviour towards the other. Judge Gillian Wade QC warned Bloice that he may never be freed. She said: "This was an abhorrent and pre-meditated assault. "These events occurred against a background of established sexual offending and stringent monitoring, but you failed to comply with the measures put in place to protect the public."

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The High Court in Glasgow heard that the woman was walking to a local shop at about 00:40 when she felt a sharp pain in her back. Prosecutor Shanti Maguire told the hearing: "She screamed and turned around. She saw Bloice facing her. "She started screaming "help, police" over and over again." Bloice ran off in the direction of Perth Concert Hall and was traced in a city hostel the next day. Officers examined phones and a tablet device discovered in his room. Miss Maguire said: "During the analysis, it was established he had used the search terms "how to kills (sic) a woman stabbing" and "can a dead woman still get pregnant"." The advocate depute said Bloice now accepted that the assault was carried out with intent to rape. Ronnie Renucci, defending, said background reports into Bloice made "somewhat depressing reading". The QC said: "It will be entirely up to him if he engages with the authorities to try and improve his situation."

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A Catholic priest let altar boys smoke cannabis and drink alcohol so he could sexually abuse them.

One of Father Thomas MacCarte's victims thought the priest was "cool" for letting them hang out in his room.

But there was "another side" to MacCarte, who preyed on children at Bishop Eton Monastery in Woolton Road, Childwall.

Liverpool Crown Court heard the pervert made one teenage boy watch gay porn, before twice performing a sex act on him.

However, when one victim's dad complained about MacCarte to the church, the priest was simply moved away to Scotland.

MacCarte, now 70 and of St Mary's Monastery, Hatton Road, Perth, denied five counts of indecent assault.

A six-day trial heard how MacCarte was born in Glasgow and in the 1980s and early 1990s lived and worked at Bishop Eton.

Robert Wyn Jones, prosecuting, said it was there he met the two altar boys - Boy A and Boy B.

Mr Wyn Jones said MacCarte "drank too much" and sometimes walked home to the monastery drunk.

The court heard Boy A had thought MacCarte was "cool" and said he didn't lecture boys about sex or lust.

Mr Wyn Jones said he also let Boy A and some of his friends visit his accommodation in the monastery to smoke cannabis and drink alcohol there.

However, he said: "There was another side to Father MacCarte. He was very tactile. He would stroke his hair in a way that was far too affectionate. He would talk about sex and mutual masturbation."

The court heard one time Boy A helped MacCarte get home after the priest had drunk too much.

Mr Wyn Jones said: "They were walking along Woolton Road, which has a few houses overlooking it at that point. It was pretty deserted.

"Father MacCarte was wearing a cassock and he grabbed Boy A by the head and forced his head under his cassock to the area of his penis.

"He was clothed but Boy A remembers smelling the stale urine and pulled his head away."

The jury heard when Boy A visited MacCarte in his room, the priest would question him about masturbation, saying "I bet you do it".

Mr Wyn Jones said: "He remembers Father MacCarte would urinate in the sink in his room and wave his penis about when he had finished."

He said MacCarte would also give Boy A money.

The court heard Boy B turned to Father MacCarte for support when he was undergoing psychological problems and drinking heavily.

Mr Wyn Jones said MacCarte "spoke kindly to him and gave him alcohol", just as he had Boy A.

He said: "Father MacCarte would show him pornography while he was drunk, in particular gay pornography.

"Boy B recalls while he was drunk Father MacCarte took Boy B's lower clothing off and performed oral sex upon him."

The court heard he did this twice and MacCarte wanted Boy B to do the same to him, but that didn't happen.

Mr Wyn Jones said: "This was happening to Boy B when he was vulnerable and needed support.

"It only came to an end when Father MacCarte was sent away by the church."

The court heard that happened after Boy B told his dad "sexual things" had happened with the priest.

The jury was told the boy's dad complained to Bishop Eton, then the parish priest.

Mr Wyn Jones said: "It was agreed that the matter would be dealt with by the church internally and Father MacCarte was moved away to Scotland with the promise that he would be sent on a course.

"These things were dealt with rather differently back then."

The court heard the abuse took its toll on Boy A, who received counselling but "has always struggled to come to terms with it".

Mr Wyn Jones said Boy A had discussed what happened to him with various people and one night, after a discussion with a friend about sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, became upset.

This led to Boy B learning that Boy A had been abused by MacCarte, having "thought it was just him".

Both victims went to the police and reported what happened to them in 2019.

When arrested and interviewed, MacCarte agreed he had worked at the church and told police he recalled the two boys.

However, he denied sexually abusing them and said he couldn't remember why he had been moved from Liverpool to Perth.

MacCarte told the jury the incidents hadn't happened and his victims weren't telling the truth.

However, jurors heard evidence from Boy B's dad and from his mum about the complaint the dad made and how the church reacted to it at the time.

They also heard evidence from a friend of Boy A, who said years previously Boy A confided in him that he had been abused by a priest at Bishop Eton.

The jury also heard from a friend of Boy B, who recalled how Boy B was very confused about MacCarte's behaviour, so he agreed to go with him to the priest's accommodation.

This witness described how MacCarte sat too close to him and stroked his hair, which made him feel uncomfortable, so he told the priest to stop and he and Boy B left.

MacCarte was found guilty of three counts of indecent assault by a majority of 11-1 and acquitted of two further counts of indecent assault.

Judge Gary Woodhall remanded him on bail until his sentencing next month.

A previous version of this article repeated an error, made in court, about the precise circumstances in which a complaint about MacCarte was made to the parish priest.