2023 - A man from Burntisland who admitted to distributing child exploitation files has been handed a sentence.
Andrew Bonnar, 23 years old, pleaded guilty to the possession and creation of disturbing imagery spanning from March 19, 2020, to September 15, 2021, during a court hearing at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.
He also confessed to distributing or displaying depraved photographs or pseudo-photographs from his address on Dick Crescent from June 25 to August 15, 2021.
At the sentencing hearing, prosecutor Alistair McDermid disclosed some of the explicit filenames found on the recovered files, including a compilation exceeding an hour showing children being abused, along with images of children harming each other and being assaulted by adults.
Defense solicitor David Cranston commented that Bonnar appeared as a typical young man, but was dealing with personal issues.
Sheriff Robert More imposed a sentence of two years' supervision, placed Bunmar on the Sex Offenders Register for the same period, and mandated him to undertake 240 hours of unpaid work in the next year.
He was also ordered to participate in the 'Moving Forward: Making Changes' program designed for rehabilitation.
The sentence was given as an alternative to jail time.
This is a probabilistic continent or country-group signal from public name datasets. It is not proof of nationality, ethnicity or personal background.
Likely region signal
UK
Country
from United Kingdom
- based on surname
75.9%
confidence
First-name region
UK
United States
38.1%
Surname region
UK
United Kingdom
75.9%
Court Outcome
Conviction and Sentencing Details
Sentenced
Detected legal outcome
mented that Bonnar appeared as a typical young man, but was dealing with personal issues. Sheriff Robert More imposed a sentence of two years' supervision, placed Bunmar on the Sex Offenders Register for the same period, and mandated him...
Community order
two years
Sheriff Robert More imposed a sentence of two years' supervision, placed Bunmar on the Sex Offenders Register for the same period, and mandated him to undertake 240 hours of unpaid work in the next year
Sex Offenders Register
240 hours
Sheriff Robert More imposed a sentence of two years' supervision, placed Bunmar on the Sex Offenders Register for the same period, and mandated him to undertake 240 hours of unpaid work in the next year
