AN Erskine man is facing jail after he was caught with a sickening stash of “extreme” pornography of children at his home.
Allan Morton, of Park Hill, was nabbed with the horrifying illegal images in his terraced home in October last year.
And he has now been placed on the Sex Offenders Register after pleading guilty to possessing extreme child abuse images when he appeared at Paisley Sheriff Court this week.
Prosecutors agreed to drop one charge against the 34-year-old but he lodged guilty pleas to the two other charges he faced.
He pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing indecent images of children and a second offence that he was in possession of “extreme pornographic images depicting in an explicit and realistic way acts which include sexual activity between adults and children.”
When he submitted the guilty pleas he was cleared of claims he had made pornographic images of children between July 2011 and October.
It’s thought he was accused of making the pictures by copying them onto his computer when he viewed and downloaded them from the internet.
During the short hearing, Douglas Hamilton, prosecuting, told Sheriff Spy Morton was a first offender.
Defence solicitor Jonathan Manson, representing Morton, said that, due to the serious nature of the offences and the fact that Morton had not previously been before the courts, he would not to be assessed by social workers ahead of sentencing.
Sheriff Spy said: “The facts have to be heard and transcribed and sent to the social work department for preparation with the reports.”
After Hamilton said that the case could be adjourned to a future date for an agreed narrative to be prepared, Sheriff Spy adjourned the case.
He placed Morton on the Sex Offenders Register, released him on bail, and told him to return to the dock later this month for the detail about his disgusting actions to be read to the court.
Morton is the second Erskine man this month to admit possessing child porn at his home in the town.
Steven Keith was found to have thousands of indecent images of children on a laptop in his bedroom at the home he shares with his parents in Mains Drive.
He admitted being in possession of 2,638 sordid illegal snaps when he appeared in the dock last week.
They featured girls aged between eight and 15 in provocative poses and the court heard they were most likely downloaded via a file-sharing application.
Of the images found, four were pornographic films, while the rest were photographs.
Keith was also placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register and released on bail.
He will be assessed by social workers ahead of sentencing, which is due to take place later this month.
