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A former firefighter who directed sex attacks on vulnerable children while he watched has been jailed for 12 years.

Paedophile Gary Campbell paid for adults in the Philippines to abuse girls as young as four while he recorded it in ‘real time’ over the internet from his home in Scotland.

The 59-year-old admitted 13 charges involving the sexual abuse of children aged 13 and under, including the rape of two girls aged eight and nine.

In a legal first, prosecutors were able to prove Campbell’s direct involvement in the abuse more than 6,000 miles away after cybercrime investigators traced online payments he made to foreign accounts. He was said to have paid as little as £10 for some of the attacks.

An international investigation helped prove the paedophile was as responsible for the attacks as the perpetrators in the Philippines, known in law as ‘art and part’ guilt. He was convicted under legislation protecting children anywhere in the world from sexual abuse by British nationals.