October 2011

Maddie perv freed… because he’s disabled

A TWISTED paedophile who trawled the web for footage of child rape and “Maddie porn” has avoided jail — because he is disabled.

Vile Duncan McAlister, 24 — who suffers from brittle bone disease — was snared with almost 500 sick images of kids on his computer.

But yesterday Ayr Sheriff Jack McGowan claimed that there was no point in caging wheelchair-bound McAlister because prison chiefs could not cope with his medical needs.

He told the fiend: “I’m conscious of your personal circumstances.

“You are not able to live independently, you can’t walk or even go to the toilet on your own.

“It’s highly unlikely that the prison authorities would be able to provide for you.”

After a more detailed search of the equipment, computer experts uncovered 485 images and nine movies stored in various areas of the computers and CDs.

He had started downloading the material in March 2007 and the computer had been used as recently as the day before, March 2 2009.

One of the folders with perverted material in it was named ‘celebrity movie archive and other goodies.’

As well as the ‘Maddy porn’ search, file names and searches carried out by McAlister included ‘pre-teen paedo’, ‘toddler little girl’, ‘dog child porn’ and ‘child rape’.

Mr Toal went on to explain that McAlister also used peer to peer software to search other pervert’s computers.

Many internet sites had been bookmarked and saved as McAlister’s favourites.

And some images were on the worst level on a scale used by prosecutors and included scenes of sadism and penetration of or by an animal.

Scores of other images were on the second worst level, including images or footage of penetration between children or between a child and an adult.

McAlister, of Ayr, was given three years’ probation with psychiatric treatment, and put on the sex offenders’ register for three years.

Sheriff McGowan added: “Only a community-based disposal could deal with your psychiatric problems.”

Tory justice spokesman John Lamont said: “It is unacceptable that people avoid prison for any other reason than the seriousness of their crimes.”