Court breach by pervert OAP

Bought mobiles without permission

A photo-faking pervert pensioner imprisoned for a year in 2016 for superimposing his own face on child sex abuse images was back in jail this week after admitting breaching a court order restricting his use of modern technology.

James Boyack, 74, who relocated to Stirling, was made subject to a longlasting Sex Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) in 2016 in addition to the jail term. The order banned him from owning computers or mobile phones without getting permission from police.

But at Dundee Sheriff Court on Tuesday, he admitted he bought two mobiles and a computer in July without authorisation from Police Scotland’s

Sex Offender Management Unit -thereby breaching his SOPO.

In 2014, Boyack was arrested after police officers raided his home in Dundee acting on a tip-off, and recovered child abuse and other images and videos.

Specialist officers reviewing the material found pictures of children being abused, upon which Boyack had added his own face over the top of the men seen in the images.

Following his arrest on those charges, Boyack moved from Dundee to Bannockburn Road in Stirling.

That address was raided in June, 2015, and Boyack was again found in possession of child abuse material.

Depute fiscal Eilidh Robertson told the court at the time: “He fully admitted having downloaded indecent images of children.

“He stated that this behaviour made him feel ashamed and that he would frequently wipe his computer’s memory to remove the temptation, before downloading further images.

“The internet search history of the laptop was consistent with the accused actively searching for indecent images of children.”

Eight devices with a total of 194 indecent images and 18 indecent videos of children were seized, as well as 262 extreme pornographic images.

Boyack was convicted of almost identical downloading indecent images of children offences in 1998.

At the court on Tuesday, Sheriff Alastair Carmichael continued the case for sentence until today (Friday) to allow a narrative of the facts to be prepared. Boyack, of Dundee, was remanded in custody.