A blind child sex predator has been hounded out of his East Kilbride home by a vigilante mob chanting "beast" and "paedo out now".
Police received a 'call of concern' at the Whitehills address of convicted paedophile Guy Kibblewhite on Monday night after paedo hunters encouraged a crowd to join in a "peaceful protest" demanding the pervert leave the area.
Streaming the incident live on Facebook, the man filming shouts out the 58-year-old's depraved offences to a crowd of neighbours gathering across the street as police officers watch on.
After around 30 minutes of jeering from the baying crowd, more police show up and Kibblewhite is eventually escorted from the ground floor flat, with his head covered, into a police car.
One woman, who did not wish to be named, told Lanarkshire Live : "I just think it's ridiculous that you've got to find out a beast is living next to you from a paedophile hunting group.
"People should be made aware that they're there, especially people with children."
Kibblewhite was caught when a delivery driver looked through his window and spotted a picture of a naked boy on his phone.
At Hamilton Sheriff Court last Friday, he pled guilty to having 689 child sex abuse images on his phone - 184 of which were in the most depraved category - and 67 videos featuring child sex abuse, 53 of which were in the most serious category.
The fiscal told the court babies thought to be newborn or only a few months old, featured in some of the sexually explicit images.
The court was told that married Kibblewhite has been registered blind since May 2015 and used a voice activation device to help him decipher them.
He admitted possession of indecent images at his home in Louis Braille Crescent over a 10-year period up to June 28 last year - which is just a four-minute walk from a nursery school.
He was placed on the sex offenders' register and bailed pending sentencing next month.
Speaking to Lanarkshire Live, neighbours said they hope the predator will not be back and slammed how long the pervert was able to evade justice, with some even questioning his disability.
Our first source added: "It was a bit frightening to have people gathering near your house, but I am all for it - I think it works.
"It's a quicker way to get them out and move them on.
"I always had my suspicions about him, he was very weird. He didn't want to speak to you and I just wondered what are you hiding - well we know now.
"It just turns your stomach. What goes through someone's mind?"
Another neighbour told us : "Everyone in the street has to put a complaint in to the housing. There's too many kids living there."
And a third claimed: "He's definitely not fully blind - he walks up and down the street without his stick and he's been ordering his online food shop with another laptop since his arrest.
"It's awful that he has been able to get access to devices again."
A Police Scotland spokeswoman confirmed officers were called to concerns for a person at a property on Louis Braille Crescent at around 6pm on Monday - just hours after Lanarkshire Live broke the news of Kibblehwite's conviction.
The spokeswoman added: “A 58-year-old man was traced and escorted from the property.”
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