A child porn collector who set up a secret screening facility in his garage to watch youngsters as young as eight being raped has been jailed.
Marcin Kazmierczak, 42, had more than 1100 pornographic videos of children aged eight to 14.
Falkirk Sheriff Court heard that the stash was found when police acting on information received and armed with a warrant raided Kazmierczak's home in Bo'ness, West Lothian early in the morning of August 25th (2020).
Kazmierczak had already left for work but his wife let officers in, and he returned half an hour later.
A total of 1129 videos of child abuse and 185 still photos of child porn were found on his laptop in the house and a "tower" computer set-up kept in the garage. 215 of the videos were copies. Some 850 of the 1129 videos were of the most serious "A" category.
Prosecutor Cheryl Clark said: "The accused admitted he went into the garage on his own and watched child pornography."
Father-of-two Kazmierczak pleaded guilty to downloading and possessing child porn, between March 2014 and August 2020.
Solicitor Andy Bryson said his client was a first offender and had already started to have treatment voluntarily for his child porn use.
Sheriff Pino di Emidio jailed Kazmierczak for 15 months, and placed him on the sex offenders' register for 10 years.
