Man admits child porn collection

The court heard some of the images fell into the most serious category

A 55-year-old man faces a jail sentence after being caught hoarding a stash of pornographic films and pictures of children being abused.

Some of the youngsters on the material at Colin Murray's Perth home were as young as three.

Police discovered more than 550 images and films of children involved in sex acts with adults and animals.

Murray admitted possessing indecent videos at his home and sentence was deferred for background reports.

Perth Sheriff Court was told that police started investigating Murray, from Goodlyburn Terrace, after receiving information from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.

'Paid for it'

The insurance manager's house was searched and a computer hard drive, a laptop and DVDs and videos were confiscated.

The court heard that some of the images found were ranked category five - the most serious type.

He had tried to delete a number of the pictures, but police recovered them using specialist software.

The films had been recorded to disc by Murray between March and May 2005 and he had kept them for more than two years.

When officers asked why he still had the videos and images he replied because he had "paid for it".

The court was told that Murray had shown no emotion when told to watch the material with investigating officers.

When asked why he did not appear shocked he replied it was because he had seen them before.

In 1986, Murray was convicted at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court on two charges of breach of the peace and one of indecent exposure.