A sick Scots paedophile has been caged for nine years after being convicted of live-streaming the sexual abuse of children.
Matthew Bell, a sales advisor from Irvine , is believed to be the first person in Scotland to be convicted of such a crime.
The 51-year-old preyed on innocent youngsters after being in contact with female paedos in the Philippines.
He even paid 93p to a woman to see a young girl being abused from his home in North Ayrshire.
At the High Court in Glasgow he pled guilty to four charges under the Sexual Offences Act.
This included “inciting the commission” of the abuse of children as well as well as conspiring to rape a woman.
It emerged he directed a man to rape an unconscious woman on Skype. During the stream he said: "Yes, this is good".
On sentencing Bell today, Lord Arthurson said: "Matthew Brown King Bell, on 2 July 2019 at a preliminary hearing at Glasgow High Court you were convicted on your own plea of extremely grave sexual offending in which your victims were an adult female and several pre-pubescent children, all unknown to you, whose abuse in the Philippines you orchestrated and live streamed to your home in Irvine by way of an internet connection.
“You used third party adults in the Philippines to act as your proxy in this appalling criminal conduct, and in respect of at least some of these charges, on the information before me, you did so apparently on a commercial basis.
“I should say that I do not intend to rehearse the nature of the offending for which you will be sentenced today. It was narrated in full by the Crown on the last calling of this case.
“In the light of the deeply troubling terms of the background report and risk assessment to which I have referred already, it is plain that in your case the extension period will require to be a lengthy one.
“You will therefore serve in respect of this indictment, in respect of all of the charges to which you have tendered pleas of guilty, on an in cumulo basis, an extended sentence of 15 years duration, with a custodial term of nine years, reduced from a period of 12 years due to your early pleas, and thereafter an extension period of six years."
