Glasgow man pleads guilty to having over 32,500 indecent images of children
Officers made the discovery while searching a property in Mount Vernon
A senior software engineer has been caught with more than 32,500 indecent images of children.
50-year-old George Reid was snared with the haul at his parents' home in Glasgow's Mount Vernon on December 29th, 2021.
The city's Sheriff Court heard police obtained a search warrant for the property.
A search recovered a hard drive from Reid's bedroom.
He told officers that the hard drive belonged to him and no one else had access to it.
Prosecutor Emma Baker said: "Officers from Cybercrime examined it and the device showed images of child sexual abuse and exploitation."
Reid was arrested before a thorough examination of the hard drive took place.
Miss Baker told the court there were 30,297 still images and 2,241 moving images of female children aged between seven and 15-years-old.
All the images were accessible to Reid and kept in an "organised folder."
The images were stored from November 2012 until the search.
Reid - a first offender - pleaded guilty today to possession of indecent images of children.
Urfan Dar, defending, told the court that he is employed as a full time senior software engineer.
The lawyer added: "He is aware that the custodial threshold has been exceeded."
Sentence was deferred pending background reports until next month by Sheriff Joan Kerr who granted him bail.
Reid was put on the sex offenders register meantime.