A social worker caught with child porn on his computer has had his sentence deferred after experts failed to agree whether he was sorry for his crimes.
Kevin Glancy, 45, worked at Edinburgh City Council's children and families department when he was caught with indecent photographs and videos.
Glancy had earlier pleaded guilty at the city's Sheriff Court to possessing the indecent photographs at his home.
He will be sentenced later in the month after more information is given.
Sheriff Elizabeth Jarvie also asked for more information about the distress the children in the video were likely to have suffered.
Social workers who interviewed Glancy said he "failed to show any genuine remorse" for what he had done, and therefore posed a medium to high risk of re-offending.
But a clinical psychologist who interviewed him at the same time said there was a "very low risk" of Glancy committing the same crime again.
Level five
Police, acting on a tip-off, searched Glancy's home in 2 March and seized two computers and a laptop.
On them they found 239 images of children, mostly boys aged eight to 14, being abused.
About 30 of the images showed the most severe end of the child abuse scale, level five, and included scenes of bondage.
Glancy also had 70 film clips of child pornography stored in his hard drives, showing moderate to severe types of abuse.
When arrested and questioned, he told police he had been viewing child porn on the internet for three years and named a website he used for downloading the illegal images.
Glancy, who lives with his mother and sister in Edinburgh, told officers he looked at the websites during his free time.
He has been suspended from work since the offences were discovered and has now been placed on the sex offenders' register.
Lawyer Eddie Wilson, defending, said: "It's a very serious matter and Mr Glancy knows that. He takes responsibility for the offences."
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