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Connor Gordon

Perverted father and son caught with horrific child abuse collection at family home

A father and son snared with a stash of indecent images of children in their home could face jail.

Andrew Clark, 66, and Adam Clark, 34, had their property in Rutherglen and various devices seized contained over 1000 pictures of children aged between two and 16.

Andrew, a widower, also wrote perverted fiction about kids and used photo editing software to create sick images.

The pair pled guilty separately today at Glasgow Sheriff Court to taking or permitting to be taken indecent photographs of children.

Andrew further admitted possession of indecent photographs and distributing the images.

The court heard police received information that an IP address from the house in Lochlea Road had searched for indecent images.

Officers raided the property and a host of electronic devices were seized from the pair on , raided in March 2019.

Adam Clark told officers: “I may have been looking at things I shouldn’t have.”

Two “unbranded tower units” belonging to him were found to contain still and moving images.

The images were created between May 2010 and March 2019.

Prosecutor Hannah Sweeney: “The images contained pre and post pubescent male and female children aged between seven and 16.”

His father meantime was found to have still and moving images across DVDs, two laptops, memory cards and a pen drive.

Miss Sweeney added: “The devices included erotic stories created by ‘Andy’ and photo edited images which were created by the user.”

Andrew Clark also sent emails containing indecent images.

Miss Sweeney said: “The majority of the emails were sexualised, where each user spoke about young children in graphic detail.

“Andrew Clark detailed his interest in young children.”

Sentence was deferred until next month for background reports by Sheriff Andrew Cubie.

The first offenders were granted bail and put on the sex offenders register meantime.

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