A FORMER youth football coach who was caught with disgusting movies showing children being raped has been jailed.

Port Seton dad-of-two Craig Raeburn stored hundreds of images of children - some as young as three-years-old - being abused by adults on two laptops he kept at his home.

Raeburn - who previously coached primary school-aged children at his local football club in Cockenzie - also installed file sharing software on the computers.

His internet history included searches for '10-year-old boy having sex with dad' and 'China - 11-year-old boy ****** and crying'.

The former NHS manager attempted to hide his depravity by deleting many of the child porn files he had downloaded.

He was jailed for 14 months and placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years following an appearance at Edinburgh Sheriff Court today (Thursday).

Fiscal depute Naomi Warner previously told the court that police officers had confiscated two laptops and a hard drive from Raeburn's home and discovered he had deleted many of the downloaded child abuse files.

READ MORE: Ex-youth football coach downloaded 1,400 indecent images of children

But officers using specialist software had managed to recover most of the images and associated file names.

The disgraced former football coach was found to have collected more than 1,400 disturbing child abuse images and a further 20 movies.

Many of the images and movies were at the most serious end of the spectrum and included three-year-old boys being raped by adults.

Ms Warner said: "The images and movies appear to have been deleted from the device and were not accessible without specialist software.

"On the large part it would appear to be [concerning] boys, but some files relate to a 12-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl having sex.

"The Category A images totalled 326 images and 16 movies that depicted boys aged from three to 14 years old engaging in penetrative activities with adults or other children."

Raeburn, a first offender, also admitted to a charge of breaking bail conditions previously imposed by a court by contacting a teenage boy named in other charges against him which were later dropped.

Solicitor Andrew Mellor told the court that his client had been sacked from his position as a practitioner services manager with the NHS due to the court case.

Mr Mellor said: "The background which led to the offences are there seem to be some unfortunate circumstances in his past, though that is no excuse.

"He is currently living with his father but it is anticipated he will get back with his wife."

Sheriff Norman McFadyen said: "This is a serious case and you held a number of images of children over a significant age range and were involved in this activity over a significant period of time.

"I am satisfied there is no suitable alternative to a custodial sentence."

Sheriff McFadyen jailed Raeburn for a total of 14 months and placed him on the sex offenders' register for ten years.

The sheriff also sentenced Raeburn to a five-year sex offenders' prevention order when he is released, which includes banning him from having any relationship with children under 16 and not to own any devices which can access the internet.

Raeburn pleaded guilty to downloading and possessing indecent images of children at his home address between November 1, 2012, and February 4 last year.

He also admitted to breaking bail conditions by contacting a teenage boy between February 5 and November 2 last year, despite being ordered not to during earlier court hearings.