was caught hoarding thousands of child abuse images at a Scots property. Alex Edgecombe was found to have the horrific haul spread between his mobile phone and an online storage account.
The IT worker, 33, told police probing him that he had downloaded the illegal image s accidentally - while looking for men on hook-up websites.
And he told the officers the 3,475 images were still on his Samsung S9 phone and Mega cloud storage account because he'd been too lazy to delete them.
But he has now been placed on the Sex Offenders' Register and could be jailed after admitting his guilt over the case at Ayr Sheriff Court yesterday.
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