A former Mearns ambulance technician was caught with hundreds of indecent images of children after police carried out a raid at his home.
Fraser Wade was found to have almost 300 indecent images and one video, split between two laptops and a USB stick, when officers executed a search warrant at 4.45am on November 4 2015.
The majority of the pictures found in the 32-year-old’s possession were category C, while the rest were category B – depicting the second-most serious level of sexual abuse towards children.
Prosecutor John Richardson told Aberdeen Sheriff Court that police received information that Wade, of Annamuick Cottages, Stonehaven, had been accessing a particular website that was of interest to them, and that images had been uploaded on October 27 2015.
On the first laptop 230 indecent images were found, 222 of category C and the rest category B.
The search history was examined and it was found attempts to access prohibited material had been made.
The second laptop had 54 indecent images, with what the prosecutor described as a “similar ratio” of category B and C images.
The USB stick contained 11 indecent images and a video.
Wade pleaded guilty to taking or permitting to take or making indecent photographs or pseudo photographs of children.
Sheriff Graeme Napier said: “I will continue this matter for the preparation of a social work report. Your bail is continued.”
He placed him on the sex offenders register in the interim, with the length of time he stays on it to be determined at his sentencing hearing.