CLYDEBANK CRIME: PERVERT GEORGE HEALY CAUGHT WITH 10,000 CHILD ABUSE IMAGES
A SELF-CONFESSED “addict” was found with more than 10,000 indecent images of children he collected over three years.George Healy, of Shakespeare Avenue, Clydebank, previously pleaded guilty to taking, permitting to be taken, or making indecent photos or pseudo-photos of children, and to possession of images between May 29, 2017 and July 27, 2020.
The 66-year-old also admitted distributing or showing indecent images or pseudo-images on July 27 last year.
Healy was found to have five devices with a total of more than 4,500 still images - 723 of them at the most serious category A level.
A further 2,687 moving images were found - 1,348 of them at category A.
Police also found Healy had saved more than 3,000 files on cloud storage.
Dumbarton Sheriff Court previously heard the ages depicted ranged from two years to 14.
When police arrived at his home, he told them: “I have got an addiction.” At Healy’s sentencing, he admitted to the offences over a series of years, which included many at the upper end of the scale.
His defence acknowledged he recognised the harm caused.
Healy had submitted a letter to the court expressing remorse, stating: “I only wish it was possible to undo the damage that was done to these children.” The sheriff stated that his offences deserved a prison sentence but instead imposed a community payback order, supervised until July 2024, along with 225 hours of unpaid work in the next three years, and a three-year sex offenders register period.
He is also subject to a five-year sexual offences prevention order (SOPO), and his digital devices will be monitored.
He is banned from contacting anyone under 16.
