A Scots pervert was caught with a sick haul of ‘Japanese manga’ videos of child sex abuse after his tablet was found by a cleaner.
Peter Jamieson built up a sordid collection of the cartoon imagery depicting kids as young as one-year-old.
The 53-year-old was snared after a worker cleaning his room in temporary accommodation found a Samsung tablet stashed inside a pair of trousers.
Jamieson had just been released from prison over a previous offence and was banned from owning electronic devices.
The cleaner called police after checking the tablet and finding a video of a young girl.
Jamieson appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday and admitted possessing indecent photos or pseudo-photos of children.
Fiscal depute Susan Dickson said a man cleaning Jamieson’s room found the tablet and alerted police.
Ms Dickson said the device belonging to Jamieson, of the city’s Leith area, was examined forensically and “indecent images were recovered”.
She said 1229 “accessible” still images were found, 233 at the Category A - or worst - level, and 781 “inaccessible” images, 157 at Category A.
The prosecutor said 39 “accessible” videos were discovered, 28 at Category A, along with 167 “inaccessible” videos, 119 at Category A.
Ms Dickson said police identified 33 indecent images had been sent from a WhatsApp account linked to Jamieson to an unidentified user.
Along with possessing the indecent images between January 31 2019 and November 30 2019, Jamieson pled guilty to distributing or showing indecent photos or pseudo-photos of children on October 21 2019.
The court was told the vile material on the tablet included images of children aged between one and 14 posing and being sexually abused.
Defence agent Stephanie Clinkscale said the material found was all in “the style of Japanese cartoon imagery of a realistic nature”.
Ms Clinkscale said her client had been released from a prison sentence and was “left to his own devices”.
She added: “Isolation over a period of time and boredom can lead to the commission of these offences.”
The solicitor said Jamieson, who is being treated for prostate cancer, now volunteered at a homeless food bank to make sure he was “socially active”.
Ms Dickson told Sheriff Alistair Noble said she was “not in a position to accept” all of the images were “manga-type” and would make inquiries before the next hearing.
She said search terms on Jamieson’s computer included “jailbait” and “lolita” which typically lead to images which are “not animated and involve real children”.
Sheriff Noble told Jamieson “custody must be a very real possibility” as he deferred sentence until next month for reports.
The sheriff granted a Crown motion for the tablet to be forfeited.
