A PERVERTED dad is facing jail after being found guilty of hoarding vile images on his phone showing girls as young as three being raped.

The sickening stash on Allan Marsh’s mobile device also included footage of a dog being abused in front of her newborn puppies.

Former supermarket worker Marsh, 50, admitted he had the files and that he downloaded porn, claiming he watched “adult stuff” both alone and with his former partner.

But he denied being responsible for the illegal images being on his phone and went on trial at Paisley Sheriff Court accused of downloading them and possessing them for more than five years, between October 2012 and January 2018, at his former home in Arthur Street, Paisley.

Marsh, who now lives in Paisley Road, Renfrew, claimed he had been hacked a number of times in recent years and said that may be how the illegal images came to be in the Dropbox account on his phone.

In a video-recorded police interview, which was shown during his trial, he said he was not sexually attracted to children and preferred women in their fifties.

He also said he thought the files found on his phone were “disgusting” and “sick” and said he would attack anyone who abused his own daughter in that way.

Detective Constable Robert Urquhart, 39, told the court he searched the home Marsh shared with his then partner at around 9am on January 29 last year and seized his Samsung phone.

When quizzed about the images during his police interview, Marsh said: “The only thing I can think is they’ve been hacked.

“I’d never watched something like that, it’s sick.”

He added: “I don’t know how they got there. Anybody can download s*** to it if they hack it. A hacker can send s*** to my phone.”

Marsh, formerly of Causeyside Street, Paisley, was found unanimously guilty of all charges.

He shook his head in disbelief as the verdicts were returned.

Sheriff David Pender placed Marsh on the Sex Offenders’ Register and deferred sentence for background reports.

He released Marsh on bail and thanked the jury for their service in what he said was a “very unfortunate and quite a distasteful case.”

Marsh, who worked at the Morrisons supermarket in Erskine, could be jailed when he returns to court next month to learn his fate.