A paedophile caught downloading a sickening stash of child abuse images for the second time after a bid to rehabilitate him failed has been jailed.
Paul Ogilvie was previously ordered to complete a sex offenders rehabilitation programme in 2006 after being convicted of possessing indecent images of children.
But last year police were tipped off that that course had failed and that Ogilvie had again been accessing child abuse images.
They raided the address he shared with his partner and her child in the Coldside area of Dundee and discovered he had amassed a depraved collection of abuse images.
Some of the 1,850 images and 145 videos found depicted “distressed” children being raped, forced into bondage and S&M activities and even being urinated on.
Fiscal depute Nicola Gillespie told Dundee Sheriff Court that police were tipped off to Ogilvie’s activities and raided his address in Strathmartine Road, Dundee, on May 29 last year.
She said 540 of the still images and 85 of the videos found on his laptop were at the most explicit level of the scale used to categorise such pictures.
Miss Gillespie added: “The images depicted boys and girls aged from infant to 15 years.
“Analysis found the user had searched a Russian photography website often found by the cyber crime unit due to it’s content of indecent images.
“That website contained images of boys aged 10 to 15 exposing their genitals.
“He was cautioned and interviewed and made no comment throughout”.
Ogilvie, 52, of Strathmore Avenue, Dundee, pleaded guilty on indictment to taking or making indecent images of children by downloading them between April 17 and May 29 last year.
Defence solicitor David Sinclair said: “He no longer resides with his partner and her daughter.
“He is no longer working and is on employment support allowance.
“This is not the first time this situation has arisen and he has taken steps to address his offending behaviour”.
Sheriff Alastair Carmichael jailed Ogilvie for a year and placed him on the sex offenders register for 10 years.
He said: “I’ve come to the conclusion that given your previous conviction for which you were placed on the Tay Project [sex offenders programme] there’s no alternative but a custodial sentence”.
