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Ross Webber (27), of North Berwick; Craig Boath (24), from Dundee; and John Milligan (40), from Glasgow, were found guilty of conspiring to participate in the sexual abuse of children along with Strachan and Rennie.

The five men, with Colin Slaven (23), from Edinburgh, and Neil Campbell (46) and John Murphy (44), from Glasgow, were also convicted of a catalogue of child porn offences.

The jury took 10 hours, over two days, to reach its verdicts.

Abuse

Five men -- Strachan, Rennie, Webber, Boath and Milligan -- were found guilty of conspiring to get access to a child or children to commit abuse.

From various locations across Scotland, they plotted, whether by using web cameras or ...

rest:

Ross Webber (27), of North Berwick; Craig Boath (24), from Dundee; and John Milligan (40), from Glasgow, were found guilty of conspiring to participate in the sexual abuse of children along with Strachan and Rennie.

The five men, with Colin Slaven (23), from Edinburgh, and Neil Campbell (46) and John Murphy (44), from Glasgow, were also convicted of a catalogue of child porn offences.

The jury took 10 hours, over two days, to reach its verdicts.

Abuse

Five men -- Strachan, Rennie, Webber, Boath and Milligan -- were found guilty of conspiring to get access to a child or children to commit abuse.

From various locations across Scotland, they plotted, whether by using web cameras or phone, to participate in sexual offences, including rape and sodomy.

Strachan and Rennie faced charges of actually abusing three young victims in this case. Strachan was convicted of attempting to rape an 18-month-old boy in Edinburgh on New Year's Eve in 2005. Strachan was also found guilty of touching a six-year-old boy indecently on the same night.

The jury found Rennie, the former chief of an organisation helping young gay people, guilty of molesting a young boy over more than four years. The child was three months old when the abuse began. The men were all convicted of a string of child pornography offences and will be sentenced at a later date.

The mother of an 18-month-old boy abused by Strachan said she would never forgive him for the "sick" attacks on her son. "The anguish I feel towards him is indescribable. He abused our trust in order to satisfy his and others' sick needs," she said.

- Hilary Duncanson in Edinburgh