A lifetime sex offender has been handed another jail term after he was caught with child abuse and bestiality material.
Former karate instructor David McAusland, 56, was previously handed a two-year prison sentence for distributing abuse images to other paedophiles.
McAusland is now back behind bars after being given a further custodial sentence along with a five-year extended sentence following his release.
Police raid
Officers discovered the vile material on laptops, mobile phones and labelled DVDs during a raid on McAusland’s home on Dundee’s Craigie Drive.
McAusland was also found with bank cards that police were unaware of, the city’s sheriff court was told previously.
The pervert committed the offence shortly after the expiration of a four-year supervision order following his release from custody.
It was revealed on Monday how McAusland felt he “let everybody down” by committing the offences.
Sheriff Gregor Murray said when passing sentence: “I am prepared to take into account that you undertook significant work with the social work department which evens out the aggravating factors.
“These are serious offences, they involve possession of extreme videos and the custodial sentence I must impose must take all of that into account.”
‘Animal one, two, three and four’
Fiscal depute Lora Apostolova said previously: “Police uncovered laptops, iPhones, bank cards, CDs and DVDs.
“The DVDs were listed as ‘animal one, two, three and four’
“Cyber crime officers attended and conducted a preview examination which found category A to C images and files with extreme pornography.”
Ms Apostolova revealed hundreds of indecent images were recovered from the devices, some of which were at the highest level of depravity.
The extreme pornography material had a total run-time of one day and 17 hours.
McAusland, a prisoner of HMP Perth, admitted possessing and downloading indecent images of children between January 21 2020 and March 9.
He also pled guilty to possessing extreme pornographic images depicting adults and children engaging in sex acts with animals.
On March 9, McAusland, who is on the sex offender’s register for life, also failed to tell police about the existence of two bank cards.
‘Went off the rails’
In 2014, McAusland was jailed for two years and four months with a four-year extended sentence after being found with nearly 3,000 child abuse images.
The creep taught martial arts to children from the age of five and upwards before his first conviction.
Solicitor Kevin Hampton said the progress McAusland had made on a sex offender’s rehabilitation programme “went off the rails” at the start of 2020.
“He felt he was starting to lose the support that had been in place and was slipping back into this type of behaviour,” Mr Hampton said.
“He feels like he’s let everybody down, the court down, myself down, the social work department and, most importantly, he’s let himself down.
“He is simply wishing me to express that there is remorse on his part.”
McAusland was sentenced to 32 months in prison along with a five-year extended sentence. His indefinite period on the sex offender’s register was continued.
