A serial child rapist who filmed the horrifying abuse of victims has been jailed for a decade.
Robert McGregor preyed on youngsters he groomed and exploited for 13 years.
Police caught him with a cache of indecent images last May which led them to identify three victims he had sexually assaulted.
One of the 36-year-old’s victims was aged three.
A senior police officer said that “a case this harrowing is rarely seen in Scotland.”
Judge Lady Carmichael told McGregor at the High Court in Edinburgh: “Your sexual offending is of the most serious and appalling nature.”
She pointep out McGregor had formed relationships with families in order to gain access to children who he then subjectebd to abuse.
The judge said his youngest victim was “extremely vulnerable”.
Lady Carmichael told McGregor she would have jailed him for 15 years but for his early guilty pleas to the catalogue of offences.
The judge also ordered he be kept under supervision for a further five years on his release.
Lady Carmichael said she was not satisfied that the risk criteria were met for imposing a life sentence on McGregor.
One man branded McGregor an “animal” as he was led off to start his sentence.
The child abuser’s home on Friars Street in Inverness was raided by police in May last year and laptops and other items were seized for analysis.
Advocate depute Jo McDonald said a search warrant was granted to police after intelligence was received from the National Online Child Abuse Prevention Agency.
More than 2000 indecent photos and 899 videos were recovered, many of which were found to contain materiel at the most extreme level of abuse.
Article originally published by STV news.
