A Scots fraudster has been jailed for a year and ordered to pay £18,000 in court costs after being convicted of a series of crimes in Iceland.

Reece Scobie, 22, was found guilty of numerous fraud offences and was also caught in possession of a large haul of indecent images of children.

Scobie, from Perth, was arrested when he arrived in Iceland in June last year.

He was also ordered to pay 3.3m Icelandic Krona to cover court costs and had his computer equipment confiscated at the District Court of Reykjanes.

Scobie, who was previously compared to notorious Catch Me If You Can fraudster Frank Abagnale in the wake of a global travel con, will serve the remainder of his sentence in the UK.

He was convicted in the Icelandic court of repeated fraud violation and possession and distribution of indecent images.

The indictment stated he had a total of 4750 illicit photographs and 345 videos stored on his laptop, mobile phone, tablet or in his Dropbox account.

He was arrested upon his arrival for booking his flights with a fake credit card and was subsequently found to have paid for a Reykjavik hotel and mobile phone products in a similar manner.

The District Court of Reykjanes found that Scobie had confessed to all of his offences but claimed he should escape punishment because he was suffering from Asperger's disorder.

A court appointed psychiatrist ruled he also suffered from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but he and the judge found Scobie criminally responsible.

It is understood Scobie, who has flown around the world using fake credit cards since he was a teenager, was on his way to New York when he was intercepted.

The Icelandic authorities stepped in to remove Scobie from a plane when it landed to refuel in Reykjavik as part of an investigation into ticket fraud and distribution of indecent images of children.

He was later released but re-arrested after further incidents of credit card fraud in Iceland's capital came to light.

In 2013, Scobie, who was 19 at the time, was locked up for a year and four months after he admitted carrying out a massive scam to fund his "fantasy" globetrotting lifestyle.

He duped travel agents out of more than £70,000 pounds as he booked flights around the world and rooms in some of the world's most expensive hotels.

At Perth Sheriff Court he was compared by his own solicitor to Frank Abagnale Jnr, whose extraordinary life story was turned into Hollywood blockbuster Catch Me If You Can.

Abagnale Jnr, played by Leonardo di Caprio in the movie, posed as an airline pilot to travel the world while taunting the authorities.