A sex offender freed early from a jail sentence for an attack on a child was handed a further year in prison — after he admitted taking child abuse images with him to a meeting with social workers trying to rehabilitate him.
Andrew McLeod was handed a four-year extended jail term last year — with two years in custody and two on licence — for a sex attack on a child.
He was automatically released after a year in prison — but within weeks had amassed child porn images and videos on a mobile phone. McLeod is serving out the rest of his original sentence and has now been handed a further year in prison, meaning he will remain behind bars until 2019.
At Dundee Sheriff Court, fiscal depute Saima Rasheed said McLeod told social workers he had been using a social media application on his phone, adding: “Police asked to examine his phone and he handed it over. A cursory examination in his presence revealed indecent images of a child.”
McLeod, 39, a prisoner at HMP Perth, admitted a charge of downloading indecent images of children on March 31 at Friarfield House, Barrack Street, Dundee.
Sheriff Alastair Brown jailed McLeod for a year and placed him on the sex offenders register.
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