PARENTS who fear their children have been abused by a paedophile nursery nurse have been urged by the police to come forward.

Alexander Mortimer, 28, was convicted yesterday of carrying out the abuse of two young children who were enrolled at the South Lanarkshire Council-run nursery where he worked.

He admitted at the High Court in Glasgow to abusing his victims, aged two and four, and possessing 18,000 images of child pornography, many among the "most depraved" seen by detectives.

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