An ex-soldier caught with a hoard of child abuse images has had his sentence appeal rejected.
Fraser Waddell, 21, tried to have his community payback order — which included unpaid work and internet restrictions — quashed at the Court of Criminal Appeal.
He was spared a jail term after admitting downloading the images at the Leuchars military base in May 2016.
Dundee Sheriff Court was previously told some of the images found on Waddell’s phone were at the top end of the scale used to measure such pictures.
Police arrested Waddell, who served as a private in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, after swooping on his room.
His appeal was rejected by judges and his 150 hours of unpaid work, two years supervision and conduct requirements around his internet use remain in place.
Sheriff Alistair Brown said when sentencing Waddell last November: “Every one of these images represents the real abuse of a real child and by providing an audience you encourage such conduct.
“If you make excuses for yourself and indulge any sexual interest in children it will only lead you into more trouble.”
The court also heard last November how Waddell phoned Dundee’s police HQ threatening to seek out a specific officer and kill him, along with others.
Fiscal depute Sue Ruta said: “He was asked to provide the PIN for his phone but said it wasn’t his. It was found to belong to his ex-partner who said she had given it to him.
“It was found to contain 21 indecent images of children in the cache of the Google Chrome browser.
“Search terms indicated he had actively sought them out.”
Waddell, of Larkhall, pleaded guilty on indictment to a charge of taking or making indecent images of children on May 24 2016
In January 2017, Waddell was sentenced to 120 hours unpaid work and a year’s supervision over his threats against police.
Waddell was also placed on the sex offenders register for five years.
In 2016, he also avoided a prison sentence over an incident in which he pulled over two women on a motorway at 2.30am, pretending to be a police officer.
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