A pervert caught with more than 17,000 child porn images is set to be moved from his home overlooking a primary school.
Stuart McDonald was snared with a haul of sick material which he amassed from the internet over a period of four years.
Now the 46-year-old faces being moved from his accommodation as he lives near Leith Primary School in Edinburgh.
McDonald avoided jail when he appeared at the city’s sheriff court on Tuesday after his sentencing had been deferred for reports.
He’d pled guilty at a previous hearing to a charge of possessing indecent photos or pseudo-photos of children.
McDonald accessed thousands of vile images between January 23 2016 and August 4 last year.
Sentencing him, Sheriff Alistair Noble said authorities were looking at switching McDonald’s home “because your current address overlooks a school although there is no suggestion of a risk of contact offending”.
The sheriff said McDonald was a first offender but added this wasn’t unusual for people convicted of this particular offence.
He added: “It’s accepted that the offences are serious. They were committed over a period exceeding four years and more than 17,000 images were viewed.”
Sheriff Noble said the “most serious images” accessed by McDonald were in the “low hundreds” while the “bulk” of them were in the “erotic posing category”.
McDonald was sentenced to a community payback order with a three-year supervision requirement. He’d already been put on the sex offenders register in May following his guilty plea.
Sheriff Noble imposed orders on McDonald that he live in accommodation approved by supervisors as a “move of address is contemplated”.
McDonald must also inform his supervisors about any internet-enabled devices he has and is banned from deleting his browser history or using programmes to hide his online activities.
Earlier McDonald’s defence agent Lesley Cunningham said her client was a “socially isolated” individual and the reports on him had identified “a number of vulnerabilities” he suffered from.
