Depraved paedo is caged for four years

Cops needed counselling after finding abuse stash

- COURT REPORTER

A depraved paedophile whose stash of child abuse pictures and videos left police officers needing counselling has been jailed for four years.

Repeat offender Gerard Buchanan, from Glenmavis, told another pervert he loved "to see babies being tortured" and the internet is helping to "bring about the reign of Satan".

A sheriff said details of the case were "uniquely horrendous and perverted".

Buchanan, 64, was also handed a 20-year sexual harm prevention order, banning him from contact with children.

He admitted downloading and sharing child sex abuse images and possessing extreme porn that showed humans having sex with animals.

Airdrie Sheriff Court heard police officers raided Buchanan's home in Brackenhirst Gardens in October last year. They found more than 1200 child sex abuse photos and films on two phones, a laptop and a tablet.

As well as graphic sexual abuse, the material showed what appeared to be dead and mutilated babies.

In one vile online chat Buchanan told another pervert: "I love to see kids or babies being tortured or hurt.