SEX OFFENDER ON THE RUN FROM TRAFFICKING HAS COURT OUTBURST
Biggar, 48, harassed the officer after escaping from his captors in England.He had been forced to work 14-hour days doing back-breaking work laying paving slabs after being trafficked from London, where he was sleeping rough.
He eventually phoned police on the person responsible, who was jailed over the crime in 2016.
The charge stated that "during the course of a telephone call" on October 12 this year, he did "make sexual remarks" to the female officer in question.
Prosecutor Angie Bennett explained: "He made a phone call to the Police Scotland Offender Management Unit.
He asked to speak to, 'the person I was speaking to yesterday'.
He stated, 'she is very beautiful'.
The call was forwarded to the Police Constable.
He stated he, 'wanted to apologise for the way he'd been speaking to her'." He then told her he was "fantasising" about her and repeatedly made sexual remarks to her, as well as telling her she was "hotter than tar".
And, when officers arrived at his home to investigate, they found he'd recorded the phone call in full.
Defence solicitor Peter Murray told Sheriff Colin Bissett that Biggar had previously been working as a night porter at a London hotel but became homeless after losing his job.
He explained: "He was befriended by an individual who offered him accommodation and employment.
"He is naive and has learning difficulties and accepted that at face value." He said he was trafficked to Hertfordshire, kept on a farm and forced to work.
He added: "Some of that trauma remains with him and unfortunately he turns to alcohol as a coping mechanism to deal with that trauma.
"He drinks to oblivion and only stops drinking when he runs out of funds.
"These are actions he is ashamed of in sobriety." After hearing Biggar was "socially isolated", with no friends or family, Sheriff Bissett jailed him for four months.
