Published: Tuesday, 11th November, 2008 09:30
Bus driver's sex shame
By Court Reporter
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George McClymont
Pic by: Stewart Robertson
THE grotesque video clips which George McClymont had were taken from 11 separate movies and showed horrific sexual abuse on children as young as three.
The 58-year-old was caught after cops raided his house with a search warrant and recovered two computers along with various other multimedia equipment, all of which contained images of varying gravity.
Sheila McDermid, fiscal depute, told Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Wednesday that when cops arrived he quickly told them that images of children would be found on the hard drive in his bedroom.
Three of the clips discovered were so horrendous that they were not able to be categorised in the sentence advisory classification.
Mrs McDermid added: “In the course of the police interview the accused said the images were mainly of adults but that he had downloaded child pornography out of curiosity and to see, in his words, ‘how far you can go’.
“He said that he was disturbed by the images but did not report them to the police because he thought the police could do nothing about it.”
Paul Crozier, defending, said his client, had been a very useful member of society throughout his life, despite this “deviant” activity.
He said: “My client co-operated completely with the police from the outset of the investigation.
“Whilst his explanation for having the images has not really ever been completely satisfactorily explained, either to ourselves, to doctors, or to the social work department, Mr McClymont accepts that it is wrong and he accepts his guilt.
“He has no previous convictions, has always remained in employment and recently received a long-service award from his employers.
“So why, oh why, does a man who behaves like this in his life come to this sorry pass?
“There appears to be no contact with children or adults who share a similar deviant interest.
“He accepts what he has done is wrong on one level but does not take that on to an awareness of the effect it has had on the children.”
McClymont pled guilty to having indecent photographs or pseudo photographs of children at his home between September 19, 2004, and November 6, 2007, both dates inclusive.
Sentencing, Sheriff Simon Fraser said: “This offence makes you a criminal and a serious one.
“You had stored on a computer thirty-nine hours and eleven minutes of some of the most disgusting child pornography that I have ever had the misfortune to see, and over the years I have had to look at a lot.
“But [time of the footage] does not truly represent the misery of those children, and one of those is thought to be as young as three.
“The misery suffered by some of these children may in fact be lifelong.
“And you explained storing that obscene material — for more than three years — by saying: ‘I just wondered why anyone would do it, it was just like an investigation’. I fail to understand that explanation.”
McClymont, of 130 Beechwood Drive, Bonhill, was jailed for 12 months — despite the maximum possible sentence being five years — and placed on the sex offenders register.
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