Alan Eccles 44

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A CHARITIES lawyer exposed by The Scottish Sun as a paedophile was spared jail.

Alan Eccles, 44, was tagged for eight months and handed 300 hours of unpaid work as well as three years’ supervision.

We told how the sicko shared child sex abuse images and chatted online with other beasts about molesting kids.

Eccles, from Bearsden, near Glasgow, also shared an intimate pic of a woman between October and November 2023.

His lawyer John Scullion KC told Paisley Sheriff Court: “The offences took place when his mental health was bad. He accepts full responsibility.”

Passing sentence, Sheriff Bruce Erroch told first offender Eccles: "You are a mature and plainly intelligent man who made a deliberate decision to act as you did.

"You must have known the risks involved. Significant psychological harm was caused by your crimes.

"Such crimes are not victimless crimes. I’ve considered the aggravating factors of all of your offences. 

"Your behaviour was, in short, despicable. You are a man of good nature who appears in the court without any criminal record and you have carried out good public service. 

"Taking all the relevant factors into account I intend to reduce the prison sentence to a high-level community payback order. Such measures will be put in places to protect the public."

The perv will also be on the sex offenders register for three years.

He is a specialist in third sector legal issues and has assisted a number of charities. 

After Eccles’ vile crimes came to light, his profile was scrubbed from the Law Society of Scotland website.

His account on business networking site LinkedIn was also removed.