The sentencing of a former SNP councillor for sexual offences involving teenage boys in Lanarkshire has been welcomed by police.
Mark Kerr, who represented the Kilsyth ward on North Lanarkshire Council, was sentenced to six years in prison and placed on the sex offenders' register last Friday at the High Court in Paisley.
Last month he was found guilty of nine charges, involving offences that took place between May 2012 and May 2020 in Lanarkshire.