Pervert jailed

Feb 12 2010 by Lisa Boyle, Ayrshire Post (main ed)

A DAD-of-three caught with more than 1200 indecent images of children on his computer has been jailed for nine months.

Vile William Jeffrey downloaded the sickening photos and videos on the family computer in Drongan.

Some of the images were at the most serious end of the scale used by prosecutors.

At Ayr Sheriff Court this week, depute fiscal Victoria Hart explained: “His wife became concerned about his level of computer use and suspected he was viewing pornographic material.

“When she was using the family PC she found files she believed to contain child porn.”

The couple separated and in June 2007, police searched the house in Drongan’s Barbieston Avenue

They sent the PC to the computer forensic unit for examination.

Analysts found 1295 images and films containing indecent images of children on an external hard drive.

When he was interviewed by police, Jeffrey responded to the charges by stating: ”Not guilty.”

But he later admitted his guilt.

Sheriff Grant Hutchison sentenced Jeffrey to nine months behind bars.