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Repeat offender Paul Dodds was placed on the register in February 2020 but accessed banned images just one week later.

Brechin machine operator caught with nearly 20,000 extreme child abuse images walks free from court © DC Thomson Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A machine operator who was caught with nearly 20,000 images of extreme abuse images has been allowed to walk free from court. John Dall was found with several hours of graphic video featuring children of all ages during a police raid on his home. Dall, 44, was banne...

Updated: January 7, 2021, 12:31 pm © DC Thomson John Dall, from Brechin, was caught with almost 20,000 sick images on his mobile phone and memory card. A pervert caught with almost 20,000 sick images of child abuse and bestiality on his mobile phone and memory card has been spared jail. Police found the stash after raiding John Dall’s Angus home. The 42-year-old told police: “There’s no point in not being honest with you. I have done what you have said.” Dall, a man with no previous co...

No jail for Dundee art teacher guilty of sex attacks on pupil over two-year period © Gordon Currie Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A Dundee art teacher dropped a pencil and forced a female pupil to pick it up so he could smack her on the bottom with a ruler. James Skelton Smith, 59, then tried to hand the ruler to the girl in a bid to get her to do the same thing to him. Dundee Sheriff Court was told Smith a...

Updated: January 7, 2021, 6:09 pm © Supplied James Skelton-Smith has been spared jail. An art teacher who sexually assaulted a pupil by forcefully striking her bottom with a ruler has been spared a prison sentence. James Skelton Smith, of Nelson Terrace, was previously jailed for a string of sex attacks on females he taught. The 58-year-old pleaded guilty at Dundee Sheriff Court to touching the woman, now in her 20s, on multiple occasions between May 2012 and June 2015 in his classroom as well...