A former police officer who downloaded child rape videos while he was in the force has been caught with thousands of sickening images.Detectives raided the home of Derek Kennedy and discovered nearly 5,000 child porn images and over 18 hours of graphic video footage.Kennedy, who was serving with Police Scotland when he started downloading illicit material in 2016, initially claimed he had downloaded images by accident.He told officers “something in the back of my mind made me keep them” when they found a number of the depraved pictures on his mobile phone.At first he denied having a sexual interest in the material, but was later found to have stored and backed up a large haul of images and videos over three years.Kennedy, 34, from Dundee,
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