30 months in prison for Arbroath man who shared abuse images

A pharmacy worker who shared a massive haul of child abuse images with undercover police officers has been jailed for 30 months.

Logan Lorimer had no idea he was chatting online to police when he forwarded a link to a huge haul of child and baby abuse images.

Sheriff Tom Hughes put Lorimer on the sex offenders register for an indefinite period and placed him under a year’s supervised release to “protect the public from harm”.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard Lorimer believed he was distributing the vile material to other paedophiles and was unaware he was being trapped in a nationwide police sting operation.

Lorimer, a first offender, committed the offence while he was being investigated for having indecent images of children at the home he shared with his mother in Arbroath.

One of the officers who helped catch the 23-yearold said the material sent by Lorimer was some of the most extreme he had ever encountered.

Police had initially obtained a search warrant for Lorimer’s home in October last year and seized an iPhone which contained indecent images of children.

A few months later, Lorimer began to have interactions with an undercover officer who had set up a profile on an image-sharing website offering fictional, indecent images of a 10-year-old girl.

The officer received an email from Lorimer asking for more images and videos of the girl. The “child” was actually a very young-looking adult.

Contact continued and the officer raised concerns because Lorimer was on bail. Lorimer became suspicious but maintained contact.

Lorimer was also unknowingly speaking to another undercover officer on the same photosharing website and sent hundreds more indecent images.

Lorimer admitted taking or permitting to be taken indecent or pseudo photographs of children between March 1 2019 and March 1 2020 in Dalhousie Place, Arbroath.

He also admitted distributing indecent images of children between January 20 and February 29.