A paedophile who directed sex attacks on girls in the Philippines from his home in the Scottish Highlands has been jailed for 12 years. Gary Campbell, 59, paid for abuse to be carried out by adults as he watched and recorded it on the internet from his home in Lochinver in Sutherland. Campbell’s youngest victim was thought to have been four years old. He admitted 13 charges including rape, assault, and inciting children to become providers of sexual services. A the High Court in Edinburgh, Lord Beckett said: “Over a period of more than two years you were intermittently sexually corrupting young children. “You will appreciate these are grave crimes indeed, for which there is no alternative to a prison sentence.” Campbell’s crimes were committed between June 2012 and August 2014. The high court heard that police raided his home in May 2021 as part of a child sex abuse investigation.

It was triggered by the discovery that he had made a series of payments to a Filipino woman after she was arrested for livestreaming child sexual abuse online.(BBC)…[+]