Highland pervert demanded naked pictures from teenagers to satisfy foot fetish
A Highland man paid two teenage girls hundreds of pounds a month to satisfy his foot fetish and put him on the brink of a lengthy prison sentence.
Keith Mowat appeared by video link at Inverness Sheriff Court to admit a total of five charges whereby he sent the 13-year-old and 17-year-old photos of his private parts and he paid them up to £750-a-month for for photos of their feet, knees and hair.
Fiscal depute Alison Young told Sheriff Gary Aitken that both girls did not request or want the indecent images of Mowat and refused his demand to send him naked images of themselves, although he offered £100 a photo.
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But the youngest victim relented and sent him pictures of her bottom and one photo of her breasts, the prosecutor added.
One charge related to Mowat threatening or disclosing some of those images to others. Mrs Young told the court of the girl's reaction on learning the photos had been distributed: "She felt her heart literally drop. She was embarrassed and stressed."
Police Scotland became aware of 32-year-old Mowat's perverse activities after colleagues in Norfolk found out about the illicit Snapchat communications Mowat conducted from his Sellar Place home in Conon Bridge which occurred between April and July last year.
"The police executed a search warrant for his house and the accused was located in his bedroom in the property. He was lying in a seated position on the bed, under the covers, holding his mobile device. The phone was seized."
Sentence was deferred until March 11 by Sheriff Aitken for a background report and an assessment for a sex offenders’ rehabilitation programme called Moving Forward to Change.
Mowat was remanded in custody and placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register.
He was warned that "a custodial sentence is a distinct possibility - or probability".
