PAEDOPHILE COLIN MURRAY, 46, A DANGER TO YOUNG GIRLS. MURRAY WAS FOUND GUILTY AFTER A THREE-DAY TRIAL AT AIRDRIE SHERIFF COURT
A sheriff branded paedophile Colin Murray, 46, a danger to young girls.Murray was found guilty after a three-day trial at Airdrie Sheriff Court in June.
The attack happened in the village of Chapelhall, near Airdrie, Lanarkshire, last July while the girl was paddling in her inflatable swimming pool in her back garden, with another 11-year-old girl.
The jury took just over an hour to convict Murray, a plater, of having used lewd, indecent, libidinous practices and behaviour towards the little girl.
He induced her to lie on a bed with him, indecently assaulted her and made indecent suggestions to her.
He was also convicted of attempting to prevent her from leaving the bed.
Sentencing him yesterday, Sheriff Robert H.
Dickson said: "She was a young girl whom you treated with total disrespect.
Drink is no excuse of this type of offending behaviour." The young girl, who can't be named for legal reasons, gave her evidence via a live CCTV link, and told how she cried after the assault.
Murray said he had downed two bottles of Bacardi that afternoon.
He told police: "I don't know if it happened or not.
I was drunk.
I got home from work, drank too much.
I drink more or less every day.
I was shocked when I heard the allegations.
I couldn't believe I could have done that." Murray, of Burnside Park, Balerno, Midlothian, did not give evidence and sat with his head bowed in the dock.
His sentence was backdated to June 20 and he was put on the Sex Offenders' Register for 10 years.
