A school bus driver found to have thousands of indecent images of children after being caught pleasuring himself as he waited to collect pupils has been sacked.
Frederick McBride escaped a jail sentence yesterday despite admitting outraging public decency and downloading indecent photographs.
Police raided his home in Merton Road, Bootle after the 59-year-old was seen performing a sex act while standing up on his coach, as he waited to collect boys and girls aged eight to 13, from Walton Sports Centre.
Today, staff at Maghull Coaches, who McBride was working for said that McBride had been sacked from his job as soon as the offences emerged in September 2014.
Liverpool crown court yesterday heard that McBride had no previous convictions but was previously investigated after girls made allegations against him in 2002.
No charges were brought in relation to these matters and Maghull Coaches continued to employ him.
Judge Neil Flewin said McBride had breached the trust the company had placed in him.
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McBride, of Merton Road, Bootle, had been spotted committing the indecent act by a gym user on an exercise bike who complained he could clearly see him across the empty car park.
When police raided his home they recovered a laptop and external hard drive f which contained 849 Category A – the most serious category – plus 909 Category B and 7,732 Category C indecent photographs and videos.
In interview, he admitted being sexually attracted to young girls.
McBride admitted outraging public decency and four counts of downloading incident photographs of children.
His barrister said her client was seeking help from a psychologist and his doctor.
Judge Neil Flewitt, QC, gave McBride a 12 months prison sentence suspended for two years, plus two year’s supervision and 80 hours of unpaid work.
He also ordered him to attend an internet sex offender group programme and to sign on the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years.
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