High-risk sex offender jailed for another 14 months at Inverness Sheriff Court over graphic child videos
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A HIGH-risk sex offender has had 14 months added to an 18 month jail sentence he is already serving for possessing very graphic child videos involving one to three year old boys.
Scott Murray, described as a prisoner in a Perth psychiatric hospital, had previously been banned from being in the company of any boy under 16 years of age but had gone on a road trip with two youngsters in February this year.
He was under a 10 year long Sexual Harm Prevention Order which was granted at Inverness on July 20, 2015. However when he was arrested, his mobile phone and computer were seized and the obscene material was found.
The 33-year-old, who had breached that order several times previously, appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court today, and admitted possessing the videos.
Fiscal depute Ross Carvel told Sheriff Margaret Neilson that 99 of them were of the most graphic and depraved kind.
Defence solicitor Willie Young said that his client had hoped that this case would have been dealt with at the same time as the order breach offence in April.
However analysis of the phone and a computer which was also seized took longer than expected and it was not possible to have them dealt with in tandem.
He added: "With the exception of 10 videos, they were all found on elderly mobile phones and there was no distribution of the material.
"They couldn't be readily viewed without complex software," Mr Young added.
When Murray was dealt with earlier this year, the court heard that in March 2017 he was released early from a 21 month jail sentence for peeking at boys in a leisure centre, from which he was also banned from entering.
The breach occurred between October 1, 2018 and February 5, 2019.
Fiscal depute Robert Weir said then that Murray met with a 14-year-old boy at Inverness Skate Park on February 5, 2019 in his blue Astra about noon.
The teenager was reported missing to the police by his mother later that evening after he failed to attend school.
Officers were told by her that she believed him to be in the company of a man called Scott in Dundee.
Police suspected Murray was involved and mobile patrols were alerted to keep a look out for his car.
It was seen later that evening heading towards Inverness, police stopped it and inside were three teenagers, including the 14-year-old.
Mr Weir said subsequent investigations revealed that 33-year-old Murray had taken the boy to Dundee and had been in regular contact with him since the beginning of October the previous year. They met regularly at the Skate Park, and he would be taken by Murray to fast food restaurants, Drumnadrochit and Dundee.
The boy had also stayed at Murray's then home in Telford Street.
Police also discovered that a second boy, aged 11, had also met with Murray at the Skate Park and had been lured into his car to be supplied with food and drink, Mr Weir added.
