Scots Tesco manager posed as a child online and bombarded youngsters with sexual images

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Tesco manager who trawled social media accounts to find local children he could bombard with sexual images has avoided a prison sentence.

Paedophile supermarket boss Steven Gibson trawled countless Facebook pages to find random young girls who lived near his home.

He then posed as a child of a similar age to dupe them into joining a Snapchat group he had set up. Father-of-one Gibson, 50, of Mailer Way, Perth, sent cartoon images of characters from TV show Family Guy to the 12 and 13-year-old members of the group.The children - who had been conned into thinking the group had been set up by a schoolfriend - called in the police after Gibson started sending images of a penis.Did you know you can keep up to date with the latest news by signing.