Paedophile shame of youth parly's lawyer

Eccles worked for under-fire charity for several years

- BY HANNAH RODGER Political Editor

A PAEDOPHILE lawyer worked for a government-backed youth charity embroiled in accusations it failed to handle claims of child sexual harassment.

Alan Eccles, from Giffnock, near Glasgow, was spared jail after pleading guilty to three charges and sentenced to 300 hours of community service at Paisley Sheriff Court last week.

He admitted to engaging in grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing conversa-tions about the sexual abuse of children, sharing indecent photos of children and an intimate picture of a woman between October 22 and November 14, 2023.