A excessive threat intercourse offender was caught downloading little one porn simply weeks after being handed a strict supervision order.
Gary Dean additionally used a tool to delete data of what he had been trying to find on-line.
The 57-year-old was again within the dock at Hamilton Sheriff Court docket on Friday.
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He admitted downloading indecent photographs of kids at a flat in Essential Road, Blantyre, on April 1 this 12 months.
Dean additional admitted breaching the phrases of a sexual offences prevention order by deleting his web browser historical past.
He was handed a SOPO on the identical court docket on February 16 this 12 months and placed on the intercourse offenders' register for 5 years.
It meant he was beneath police supervision in the neighborhood and any web units he used had been examined routinely.
Jennifer Cunningham, prosecuting, mentioned 17 indecent photographs that includes ladies aged between 4 and 16 had been discovered on a pill and a cellphone belonging to Dean.
It was additionally established that a machine able to 'cleansing' browser historical past had been put in.
Dean informed law enforcement officials he had been viewing grownup porn and varied hyperlinks led him to pictures of kids.
He insisted he hadn't looked for the pictures then informed his supervising officers: "I do know you may have all tried, however that is on me. I am sorry."
Sheriff Ray Small deferred sentence till August 25 for background experiences and a threat evaluation.
Dean, who has been in custody since April, stays behind bars.
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