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Jail for paedophile who loitered around Aviemore swim pool


By Alan Shields

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A serial child sex offender from Inverness has been jailed for deliberately loitering around an Aviemore swimming pool.

Convicted paedophile Scott Murray (36) claimed to staff at the Macdonald Spey Valley Resort that he needed to charge his phone and electronic cigarette.

However he spent two hours hanging around in the reception area while the items were charging.

Jailed: Scott Murray Picture:SPP photographer.
Jailed: Scott Murray Picture:SPP photographer.

During this time he was seen looking through a glass window at the swimming pool area and later found to have propped a window open in the toilets.

Murray, who has previously served an 18 month jail sentence for possessing extremely graphic videos involving children aged one to three years old, is forbidden from entering such places unless granted police permission.

Of the videos 99 of them were of the most graphic and depraved kind, a court heard previously.

He was previously put under a 10 year long Sexual Harm Prevention Order which was granted at Inverness on July 20, 2015.

And in March, 2017 he was released early from a 21 month jail sentence for peeking at boys in a leisure centre.

Murray, described as a prisoner at Barlinnie, has now appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court on indictment where he admitted going into Aviemore hotel's leisure centre in breach of the court order under the sexual offences act.

He also admitted threatening and abusive behaviour at the resort, which is also known as Dalfaber Golf and Country Club.

The court heard he was shouting, swearing, muttering, laughing and uttering threats while in the lobby area on March 14 this year.

At one point he started yelling about “aliens” and other random phrases.

Fiscal depute Susan Love said: “The accused is a registered sex offender.

“He would have to ask permission from the police if he wanted to attend a swimming pool.

“Around 4pm on the day he became known to staff at the front door of the country club.

“He said he needed to charge his phone and his vape.

“He was seen making remarks about 'my head' and 'aliens and planets' as well as going to the glass door over the swimming pool area.”

Inverness Sheriff Court heard he also used the toilets several times after staff gave him a charging device.

When he finally left staff found a window had been left ajar in the toilets to the leisure centre.

Solicitor William Young said his client was intending to go swimming in the Aviemore area on the day in question.

Mr Young said: “During the course of the day he realised he needed to charges his phone and his vape.

“Even if Mr Murray had wanted to access the facilities he would needed to have made arrangements or prove he was a guest at the hotel.”

He was jailed for 20 months.


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