Soft play owner caught with sick child abuse images bought infamous death house

Steven McInally, 36, who ran Go Wild brushed play centre successful Bridgeton, Glasgow, has been jailed for 25 years aft being caught successful the United States with indecent images and videos of children

A kids' brushed play centre bought an infamous decease location earlier helium was caught with kid enactment maltreatment images.

Steven McInally, 36, who ran Go Wild brushed play centre successful Bridgeton, Glasgow, has been jailed for 25 years successful the United States aft being caught with indecent images of children taken during a sleepover astatine his home. He was stopped astatine a Florida airdrome and aft unlocking his phone, officers recovered much than 3,900 images and 70 videos of children.

Prior to his arrest, McInally spent £144,000 connected a derelict location successful Colston which was the country of a tragic killing, and spot records amusement helium inactive owns the house. The fire-ravaged location had been bare for years aft Jeffrey Ash killed his mother, Ellen, determination successful 2011 earlier fleeing to London.

When firefighters arrived astatine the spot they recovered the 83-year-old's badly-burned assemblage connected the surviving country level — with six bottles of achromatic tone and turpentine substitute dotted astir the home.

Ash handed himself successful to officers at Belgravia constabulary station that afternoon, and admitted what he'd done to his mother. He confessed: "I killed my mum past night. I smothered her past I burnt the location down. I could not spot her suffering anymore - she had Alzheimer's. I past got connected a autobus to London. I could not enactment astir determination anymore. I had to get away."

In September 2013, Ash was jailed for 40 months implicit his mum's decease aft pleading blameworthy to charges of culpable homicide and wilful fire-raising. In August 2022, astir 11-and-a-half years aft the killing, the spot was enactment connected the marketplace by Auction House Scotland, with a usher terms of £85,000.

A listing connected online spot merchantability website rightmove.co.uk described the location arsenic a "fantastic development/refurb opportunity". The listing added: "The spot has been extensively occurrence damaged successful the past and determination are ample amounts of rubbish and different effects passim the property, deemed hazardous for viewers.

"As such, nary interior viewings are available, though the disposable photographs and video connection an denotation of interior condition."

Title deeds amusement that McInally purchased the property. McInally paid £144,000 for the house, with the day of introduction recorded arsenic September 13, 2022, and the day of registration noted arsenic July 7, 2023, reported GlasgowLive. The pursuing period helium was held astatine Florida's Melbourne International Airport.

An probe revealed immoderate of the indecent images had been taken astatine his location successful Glasgow. The United States Attorney's Office said: "Some of the kid intersexual maltreatment worldly recovered connected McInally’s compartment telephone included images of minors that had been taken during a sleepover enactment that the minors attended astatine his home."

Police Scotland said it had sent a study to Scottish prosecutors successful transportation with alleged offences committed successful Scotland. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said a study has been received.