"I love you beyond measure hubby/Daddy/owner/pedo/rapist": The sickening WhatsApp messages that exposed a couple's dark secret
A depraved couple have been exposed through their sickening Whatsapp messages. Vile Wendy Mason sent paedophile husband Mark a message calling him "hubby/rapist".
The Daily Record reports that the couple were convicted of a catalogue of crimes that involved photographs of child abuse, bestiality and other acts too horrific to publish.
In August 2021, Wendy Mason, 53 sent a WhatsApp message to Mark Mason, 51, saying: "I love you beyond measure Mr Mason/hubby/Daddy/owner/pedo/rapist."
The message is signed with kisses and warped Mason responds with smileys. The text was part of a dossier of evidence presented to Dumfries Sheriff Court, which a sheriff described as the sickest file he had encountered in 30 years of examining evidence. It is not known if Mason did carry out any rape or the claim is a sordid fantasy.
Earlier this month, Mason was jailed at Dumfries Sheriff Court for 34 months after being caught with the twisted material at his home in Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire. After the couple’s phones were seized, a hoard of more than 600 photos and videos were found, with almost half being Category A – the most seriously depraved.
Sheriff Kevin McCallum KC told Mason he had never encountered such images in a three-decade legal career. The Daily Record can also reveal Mason created a fake online identity using a photo of a handsome young man and the moniker "Sexy Bum".
He was convicted of attempting to indecently speak to six children – who were actually undercover adult "paedo hunters", working to weed out predators online.
A source said: "It is difficult for any normal person to understand how any sexual pleasure could be derived from the material they shared. Their sexual appetites included extreme porn, incest and