A SICK pervert was snared with over five hours of indecent footage of children on his laptop.

William Leonard, 29, was also caught with 7,732 explicit photos and video clips of youngsters in February last year.

He pled guilty today at Glasgow Sheriff Court to possession of indecent images of children and permitting images of children to be taken.

Police attended Leonard’s girlfriend’s father’s house in Glasgow’s Croftfoot area where he was living at the time.

Officers seized Leonard’s silver laptop which later investigated.

Prosecutor Amanda Gallagher said: “There were 5,640 accessible still images.

“There were 2,092 accessible moving images.”

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More than 2000 of the clips and photos were at the worst end of the scale used by authorities to grade such images.

The sick haul was of female children taken from websites.

The images were created between 24 September 2014 and 12 February 2019.

Miss Gallagher: “The overall play of the moving images was five hours, eight minutes and 52 seconds.”

Sentence was deferred by Sheriff Martin Jones QC until March for background reports.

Leonard, now of Glasgow’s Milton, was put on the sex offenders register and bailed meantime.