A CONVICTED sex offender appeared back in court after he was caught in possession of a single image depicting bestiality.

Connor White was placed on the sex offenders’ register for three years and handed a strict community-based sentence after he was found to have downloaded thousands of indecent images of children last June.

As part of his registration conditions, police officers were allowed to check up on his internet use during unannounced visits to his former home at Old Course Gate in Musselburgh.

And during one visit by police officers in June last year, it was discovered that 24-year-old White had an image on his phone depicting a woman engaging in sexual activity with an animal.

White pleaded guilty to the offence previously at Edinburgh Sheriff Court and returned to the dock for sentencing last week.

Sheriff Donald Corke was told that White had been handed the maximum non-custodial sentence of 300 hours unpaid work and three years on a supervision order during his last visit to court.

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Lawyer Mary Moultrie, representing White, said that her client, who has since moved to an address in Edinburgh, had been engaging well with the current court order.

Sheriff Corke agreed to allow the existing order to continue and said that the “most appropriate” disposal was to sentence White to a six-month supervision order and place him on the sex offenders’ register for six months.

The sentence will run concurrently to his existing sentence.

White admitted to possessing an extreme pornographic image at his former home at Old Course Gate, Musselburgh, between June 11 and 14, 2022.