Perth paedophile posed as teenager in online chats

A Perth man who was caught with a huge hoard of child pornography posed as a 16-year-old to chat to young girls online, a court has heard.

Police swooped on Donald Kerr’s home and found more than 1,300 obscene pictures of children including a collection of naked selfies on his computer.

The 47-year-old also had more than 10 hours of illicit videos, many of which were at the highest end of the indecency scale.

Kerr appeared at Perth Sheriff Court on Tuesday and admitted possession of the files at his home in Crammond Place.

He also pleaded guilty to contacting a 14-year-old girl and urging her to send him explicit pictures and film of herself.

Sentence was deferred until October 29.

For more, see Wednesday’s Courier.