A rich pervert who has been ordered to ensure Police Scotland knows where he is living at all times has been censured after “going missing”.
Officers were forced to track down Malcolm Kerr after he disregarded orders to make an annual visit to the police station to record his home address.
Kerr, now 69, was once a wealthy chartered accounted who earned significant sums working around the world in locations such as Vienna, Paris, California and Switzerland.
After leaving the world of finance, however, the classic car collector found himself banned from driving following convictions for drink driving in 2015.
He was branded “arrogant” after being caught twice in the space of a week – around twice the legal limit each time.
A sheriff at the time said Kerr gave the impression that he “didn’t know what all the fuss was about”.
Kerr was shamed further in 2016 after he admitted downloading child sex abuse images at his home near Dunkeld and was fined £15,000 for his crime after a sheriff told him he should help fund the fight to catch other paedophiles.
Perth Sheriff Court was told he had lived a “privileged” life and that his money would go to the public purse to help investigate others like him who download illegal images.
He was placed on the sex offenders register as part of that sentence, which carried with it a number of responsibilities.
They included registering his details, including his home address, with the police on an annual basis so that his whereabouts are always known.
His blasé attitude to what is expected of him was in evidence again, however, as he appeared in the dock at Perth Sheriff Court once more to admit failing to do so between December 30 last year and January 6 this year.
He blamed the rural nature of his home and a dodgy phone signal for having failed to comply with the terms of his order and not answering calls from the authorities.
Depute Fiscal Nicola Gillespie said: “When he failed to comply with the terms of the sex offenders register on December 29, police officers made numerous unsuccessful attempts to contact him.
“He was traced at his home on January 6 and spoken to by officers.
“He told them: “I was just sitting at home. I wasn’t committing sexual offences”.”
Sheriff William Wood fined Kerr £1,000, telling him his disregard for the terms of the sex offenders register put his liberty in jeopardy.
He said: “Your obligations are very serious. You must register with the police. If you offend again in this way then you may well go to prison.”
