A kids’ swimming teacher who was caught with child porn has been ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work.
Indecent images of children were found at the home of Andrew Gray, 37, who won a gold Olympic medal for swimming in 2007 and now teaches disabled children to swim.
Police found more than 900 images when they raided Gray’s home on Dunmore Gardens, which he shares with his parents.
The images were of children ranging from just a few months to 15 years old and some severe in nature.
Fiscal depute Saima Rasheed told Dundee Sheriff Court that Gray suffers from Asperger’s syndrome but is not on medication.
Police received a warrant to search Gray’s home and when they attended, he stated “Can I ask when this was as I had a problem before”.
His parents then told officers they found images on his mobile phone previously.
The fiscal said: “A search begun and officers were informed that their computer tower was at a repair company, where a hard drive and computer tower were later seized.
“A full examination was carried out and it was discovered that both contained indecent images of children.”
The court heard 183 images were found on this computer and a further 710 images were found on the hard drive.
Of these, 87 images were found to be at the most severe level as rated by police.
Gray admitted taking, permitting to being taken, or making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children, at his home address between march 18 and August 29 last year.
Sheriff Alastair Brown said: “These images are of real children, these things have really happened to them.
“They have been abused and the only reason for that is to provide images for people who want to look at them.
“By viewing them you make the abuse happen.”
The sheriff imposed a community payback order consisting of 150 hours of unpaid work and three years supervision.
He also ordered Gray take part in a Sex Offenders programme and imposed restrictions on his access to the internet.
Gray was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years.
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