A CONVICTED sex offender was caught with child porn videos.
Neil Goodwill, 68, of Westfield Lane, was previously placed on a 10 year sexual offences prevention order (SOPO).
But Dundee Sheriff Court heard he flouted the order a number of times, including when he undertook volunteer work with children at the Dive Bunker, Fife, and at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
He was also given permission to film a band on a public street in Glasgow but instead filmed children in the audience.
At court he admitted a charge of having indecent images of children at his home address.
Fiscal depute Stewart Duncan said Goodwill told police he had resorted to viewing images online as an “accepted alternative” to his behaviour in those public places.
The fiscal said that the indecent images were found by police when they attended at his home as part of his monitoring. Mr Duncan said: “About 12.30pm on October 14, 2014, two detective constables attended and traced the accused.
“During this visit the accused was asked if he would be willing for the detective constables to conduct a field search of his equipment. He agreed.
“During this search, a header ‘Dutch boys Speedo cute pre-teens’ was noted.
“The accused was cautioned and replied, ‘Don’t know it or recognise it’.”
Goodwill agreed to voluntarily surrender his laptop for further investigation and it was submitted for forensic examination.
This revealed indecent videos of children.
Officers also recovered search terms that were “of concern”.
The fiscal continued: “The accused denied seeking any online images when specifically asked by criminal justice social workers.
“He later stated that he chose to lie about this over fear of being chastised.”
Sentence was deferred until February 26 and Goodwill was remanded meantime.
Dive Bunker owner Mark Blyth said of Goodwill: “He went on a try dive here. He bought a voucher online and turned up and went in the pool, with kids there, when he shouldn’t have.
“He went on a test scuba diving session but didn’t mention his previous history to us.
“He was basically a customer of ours — we have no way of vetting them.”
A spokeswoman for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe declined to comment.
This article originally appeared on the Evening Telegraph website. For more information, read about our new combined website.