SpindriftA married quantity surveyor uploaded sexually suggestive pictures of female colleagues in the workplace on social media.
Neil McDougall, 58, took 35 images on a company mobile phone between January 2021 and March 2024.
The dad-of-one posted the pictures on Twitter with sexualised captions and hashtags.
McDougall was sacked from a construction consultancy firm in Glasgow after a former colleague found the social media page and recognised the victims.
He was later caught with a further 147 indecent images of children as young as one on his mobile phone.
McDougall pled guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner.
He also admitted possession of indecent photographs of children.
The court heard that McDougall’s former colleague noticed an account on social media chatting app Telegram.
The account – which used McDougall’s phone number – had a username which linked to a Twitter page on it.
The man found that the Twitter page included sexualised images of two of his former colleagues.
Prosecutor Josh Dowie said: “It was clear that the pictures were taken without the knowledge or consent in the workplace.”
A number of examples of the images were read to the court.
One image of an employee had the caption “Really love the autumn, boots are being worn around the office” with a devil and a kiss emoji alongside it.
Another picture had the caption “Hot or not?” with a devil and a love heart emoji.
Mr Dowie said: “The images were pornographic in nature.”
It was found that one of the images had been viewed 400,000 times while others were in the tens of thousands.
Comments from unknown users were also noted below the posts.
The hearing was further told that McDougall had uploaded a video of himself in the office bathroom performing a sex act with a pair of high heels.
These were later confirmed to belong to one of his colleagues who kept them under her desk.
The matter was reported to the police and McDougall’s phone was seized.
A total of 33 still images and ten videos were found – 35 of which were of women in the office without their knowledge.
Three of the images were of McDougall performing a sex act.
McDougall was also discovered with 147 still and moving sexual images of children aged between one and 14 years old.
The matter was reported to the police and a partner at the firm and McDougall was spoken to.
He stated to the partner that he “had a problem.”
John Kilcoyne, defending, told the court that his client is not working after he lost his job due to the incident.
The lawyer added: “He realises this is a very serious matter which could result in custody.”
Sentence was deferred pending background reports until July by Sheriff Iain Fleming who put McDougall on the sex offenders register and granted him bail meantime.
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