A training company boss is facing jail after being caught with the "most serious" category of child porn.
Raymond Coney, 69, admitted downloading child abuse photos from the dark web using the so-called Tor browser, used to hide Internet-users' identities.
Falkirk Sheriff Court heard today that police armed with a search warrant raided his home in Buchlyvie, West Stirlingshire, last August acting on information received.
The court was told more than 40 child abuse images classed as Category A - the most serious kind of child porn - were found on his computer and mobile phone, together with nearly 70 category B and C photos.
Coney pleaded guilty to downloading child porn at his home over a period of more than two and a half years, between January 2018 and August 3 2020 when the raid took place.
Coney is listed by Companies House as having been at the time a director of education firm Training Academy.UK Ltd, which was voluntarily dissolved on May 11, 2021.
Sheriff Simon Collins QC deferred sentence for reports until September 16th.
He continued bail in the meantime, but warned Coney: "A custodial sentence is a distinct possibility."
