A pervert who travelled from his home in England to have sex with a teenage schoolboy at an Edinburgh hotel has avoided a jail sentence.

Man Lok Ng made contact with the young victim on the Discord group chat app before arranging to meet up with him at a Premier Inn in the capital’s city centre in January last year. The 24-year-old Thai national then engaged in sexual intercourse with the boy despite the lad being under the age of 16.

The boy’s concerned mother managed to track her son to the hotel and after the police were called in officers discovered disgusting child abuse images on Ng’s mobile phone. Edinburgh Sheriff Court was told the sick material involved victims aged between three and 14-years old being sexually abused by adults.

The court heard the mobile phone also cont

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