Our thanks to Gerry for
this. An extract:
Sheriff Derek O’Carroll said there had been ‘a considerable degree of planning’ by Millar. The sheriff added: ‘I very much regret to say in my view regarding the gravity of the offence and your culpability, despite all that has been said in mitigation, there is in my view no alternative to a custodial sentence.’ [J4MB: WHY does the man “very much regret” to saying this? If the sexes were reversed, would he say the same? Surely not.]
Millar was also placed on the sex offenders’ register for ten years and will be included on the list of people banned from working with children and vulnerable adults.
Advocate Sarah Livingstone, defending, said that Millar knew she had committed ‘a very serious offence’ but was ‘not a sexual predator’.
Ms Livingstone said: ‘She is not someone who set out to sexually abuse the complainer. She accepts what she did was wrong and accepts full responsibility for it.’
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