Pervert caught in Midlothian home with 70,000 child abuse images

A PERVERT caught with 70,000 horrific child abuse images has been given an extended four year sentence and placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life.

Hoard: Dryburgh was caught with sickening images

Kristoffer Dryburgh, 35, downloaded the massive collection of disgusting photos depicting children as young as 12 months old being abused by adults.

He was also found to have hundreds of extreme sexual images depicting animals and adults stored on a computer when police raided his former home in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, last year.

And when officers searched through his mobile phone they also discovered two photographs of a young girl being sexually assaulted which turned out to be a child known to him.

Biker beast: Dryburgh

Dryburgh pleaded guilty to possessing the vile images during an earlier appearance at Edinburgh Sheriff court in August and returned to the dock for sentencing.

Sheriff Norman McFadyen said he had committed “a serious case aggravated by the high amount of images” and had “carried out the systematic searching for the relevant material”.

He told Dryburgh: “Because you have been convicted of serious sexual offences I am concerned that the public should be protected against serious harm from you so I am going to pass on you an extended sentence.”

Dryburgh, from Kinghorn, Fife, was handed a four year extended sentence where he was jailed for two years and will be on licence for two years following his release.

Sheriff McFadyen also ordered Dryburgh to be placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for an indefinite period.

Previously the court was told Police Scotland’s cyber crime unit had “received intelligence of the downloading indecent images of children” and officers raided the Midlothian house at around 7.30am on August 23 last year.

Procurator Fiscal depute Jade Doig said an external hard drive contained 69,281 harrowing images and 1331 movies involving girls aged between 12 months and 12 years old.

There were 3483 category A still images, 3454 Category B and 62,344 at Category C.

Also uncovered were 674 Category A movies - the most depraved end of the spectrum - 215 category B and 442 category C.

Ms Doig said an iPhone was also found belonging to the fiend which had two “first hand pictures” of a young girl stored on it.

Following police enquiries it was found the images had been taken at the home of an associate of Dryburgh who had two young daughters.

The court was told a further 56 images and 40 movies of extreme pornography depicting sexual activity between “adults and animals” were also found.

Solicitor Stephen Knowles, defending, said his client “recognises the custody threshold had been met” by his offending and that he has no previous convictions and is of “previous good character”.

Dryburgh pleaded guilty to possessing indecent images of children and taking or permitting to be taken indecent images of children at an address in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, between December 17, 2017 and August 23 last year.

He also admitted to possessing extreme images depicting in an explicit and realistic way sex between adults and animals at the same address between January 25, 2018 and August 23 last year.

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