Mark Webster A CREEP caught sharing hundreds of child abuse images claiming he 'loved lil teens' has been allowed back into the community after a sheriff spared him a prison term. Mark Webster was placed on a further sexual harm prevention order - restricting his use of social media sites - when he returned to the dock last week. The year-old admitted to taking, permitting to be taken or making indecent images between April 20 and July 15, The sex offender also admitted to a second charge of distributing or showing indecent images from April 20 to July 20, from his home in Merrick Drive, Dalmellington.
Webster claimed he was "going to sue" our Ayrshire Weekly Press reporter claiming we had "no right to be in" his hearing when he pleaded guilty on December 4 at Ayr Sheriff Court. Not guilty pleas to further allegations, including that he had possession of extreme pornography depicting females with dogs, were accepted by prosecutors. A procurator fiscal depute told a previous hearing: "The accused was found in possession of indecent still and moving images from category A to C.
A search warrant was granted and officers from Police Scotland attended his home address on July Police seized a Samsung mobile phone from Webster's bedroom and informed him that it would be examined. The fiscal depute added: "An interim examination was carried out on July 21 which confirmed indecent material. On the same date, he returned to his home address and was arrested and conveyed to Kilmarnock police office. He was released on an undertaking to appear in court.
The court heard that inaccessible category A still images were discovered on Webster's device - the worst level of abuse. Various chat threads were recovered on one application, Telegram, containing messages from the user requesting details from others to trade in indecent content. Various acronyms were found that associated him with child sexual exploitation and abuse material. The fiscal depute said: "Further chats on Snapchat were found and several associated the accused with child abuse material and sending media files.
The content of some files is unknown having expired. When he returned to court with his face covered by his jacket for sentencing on January 28, defence solicitor Derek Pettigrew said: "In terms of the report, I can't stress enough his anxiety that he may be going into prison.
