An Abertay University computer gaming graduate caught with more than 13,000 indecent images of children has launched an appeal against his sentence.
Anthony Sheridan was jailed for 27 months in March after admitting amassing the material, which also included more than 12 hours of abuse videos, some of which he shared online with fellow paedophiles.
Described by his solicitor as “particular and peculiar”, he was deemed by social workers to be at a high risk of reoffending and was also given an extended sentence of 24 months following his release.
The 35 year-old has now instructed his legal team to challenge his sentence in a bid to have it reduced.
The case will call before appeal judges at Edinburgh High Court on July 8.
Sheridan, of Baldovan Terrace, had admitted possessing and distributing indecent images of children between December 2012 and December 2013.
A total of 496 indecent images and 136 indecent videos were recovered from a computer tower and 12,549 images and 44 videos recovered from a hard drive.
Some of them were deemed to be at the most severe level in the grading scale for child abuse material.
During his appearance at court, depute fiscal Eilidh Robertson said: “He admitted that he had been downloading pornography since he was in his early twenties and that it was only more recently that he viewed images and videos of children.
“He stated that he was downloading and viewing pornography on an almost daily basis and admitted using a programme designed to make it more difficult to identify computers downloading such material.
“The accused admitted that he knew that this was wrong and always thought that he would get caught.”
He was jailed by Sheriff Elizabeth Munro.