Twisted couple caught with hoards of images of people having sex with human corpses and animals - while husband spoke to 'children' online

A twisted mates were caught with hoards of images of radical having enactment with quality corpses and animals, a tribunal has heard. 

Mark Mason, 51, and his woman Wendy, 53, admitted hoarding a stash of utmost pornography arsenic good arsenic indecent of children astatine their location successful Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire.

The sick brace appeared astatine Dumfries Sheriff Court wherever they admitted a drawstring of charges spanning betwixt February 2021 and April 2022.

Mr Mason admitted possessing utmost pornography and indecent images of children arsenic good arsenic attempting to indecently talk to six children who were really undercover adults moving to weed retired predators online.

His woman besides pleaded blameworthy to possessing and sharing indecent photos of children arsenic good arsenic utmost pornography.

Mason was jailed for 34 months and placed connected the enactment offenders' registry indefinitely.

His woman was ordered to transportation retired 300 hours of unpaid work, tagged for 9 months and enactment nether supervision for 3 years.

She volition besides beryllium connected the enactment offenders' registry for 5 years and made taxable to a 5 twelvemonth intersexual harm prevention order.

Sheriff McCallum told Mr Mason: 'In 34 years' engagement successful the transgression justness strategy archetypal arsenic a solicitor, past arsenic counsel, past arsenic elder counsel and present arsenic a judge, earlier your case, I had ne'er personally antecedently encountered a lawsuit wherever a idiosyncratic was recovered to beryllium successful possession of images of persons engaging successful intersexual enactment with quality corpses arsenic features successful the libel of that that you person pleaded blameworthy to successful this case.

'One hears astir specified things, but 1 hopes personally ne'er to acquisition oregon to woody with specified a case.

'That anyone would privation to person oregon presumption specified images and deduce intersexual gratification from doing truthful astir beggars belief, but you seemingly did. Why other would you person them?'

Sheriff McCallum told Wendy Mason: 'Whilst it is suggested that you committed these disgusting and reprehensible offences nether the power of, and successful bid to please, your husband, arsenic is recognised successful the Criminal Justice Social Work report, and arsenic communal consciousness establishes, the offences committed by you were not impulsive. They required readying and effort connected your part.

'I americium entitled to infer oregon reason that a idiosyncratic with nary involvement successful specified vile worldly would simply garbage to prosecute successful specified enactment astatine all. You intelligibly did not garbage to prosecute successful specified activity.'