Rattray man downloaded child abuse images for four years

A Rattray man has admitted downloading child images at his home over nearly four years.

Paul Eyres, 30, Jessamine Cottage, South Street, pled guilty to taking or permitting to be taken or making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children between February 2011 and November 2014.

Fiscal depute Carol Whyte told the court: “It was the opinion of examiners that the accused had used file shredding and disk cleaning applications in order to avoid file detection.”

Eyres admitted to police that he had downloaded and deleted under 100 videos. Sheriff Fiona Tait deferred sentence for reports until March.