A judge labelled a perverted pensioner's claims to have downloaded child abuse images for research purposes "abhorrent" and told him: "I don't believe you for a moment".
Gordon Hamilton denied gaining any sexual gratification from watching children as young as five being abused, claiming he accessed them after a discussion at a university seminar about the morality of such offending and watching a TV show.
When police executed a search warrant at his home in December 2019 after his IP address was linked to downloading indecent images, his devices were seized and searched. They found 110 category A movies and one still image, 101 category B pictures and 18 movies and 4,103 category C pictures.
