Lennox McGhee was 15 when he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl, but the case didn’t go to court due to his circumstances and age.
A predator was able to avoid prosecution for a sex attack under controversial guidelines – and then went on to rape a teenager.
She said: “We’re furious, if he had been given the same jail sentence the first time around he wouldn’t have been free to attack my daughter. A system that allows rapists to avoid going to court and offers them things like therapy is disgraceful. Under prosecution guidelines, instead of facing trial, under-18s can be given therapy and spared a criminal conviction for a series of offences including sexual crimes. The Lord Advocate announced a review of the policy following a series of Sunday Mail stories which exposed how alleged sex attackers had been spared prosecution.
McGhee attacked his first victim in his hometown of East Kilbride in June 2020. He pushed her to the ground, restrained her and repeatedly carried out a sex act on her without her consent. Less than two years later, he went on to rape the then 15-year-old girl in woods in the town, in May 2022. “So you, unusually, were or should have been acutely aware of issues of consent, sexual autonomy and the criminal law. Despite that, you took advantage of .”
He denied raping the teen and the court heard how he claimed to have got “fed up” with the girl and that he had “palmed her off” to someone else as she was “annoying”. McGhee was said to have not expressed any remorse or “any understanding of the effect” on the victim.
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