GOUROCK BUS DRIVER JAILED FOR RELATIONSHIP WITH VULNERABLE TEEN
A GOUROCK bus driver who formed a relationship with a vulnerable teenager has been jailed.John Adamson, 38, twice broke bail conditions not to contact or approach the 16-year-old.
On one occasion the girl was found at his Cardwell Road home trying to hide from police officers in his bed.
Adamson had first met the girl while driving a bus and had exchanged ‘banter’ with her.
At Greenock Sheriff Court it was claimed that he thought she was aged ‘19, 20 or thereabouts’.
Adamson appeared from custody to admit harbouring a child at his home on 17 February at a time when he was on a bail order forbidding him from contacting her.
He also admitted a separate charge of breaking bail on 11 March by phoning her.
Despite the bail order still being in place, Adamson had phoned the girl in March, shortly after she had called him.
He was caught when the call was put on speakerphone.
He will serve four months behind bars.
—————————————————————————— Sheriff Rajni Swanney allowed John Adamson, 38, to walk free on a charge of knowingly concealing the girl in his Gourock flat in January — and ordered him to behave himself in future.
Adamson had been previously been given a four-month jail term on 12 March for harbouring a child and breaching bail by contacting her.
He was released from prison last Thursday.
Procurator fiscal depute Kevin Doherty told Greenock Sheriff Court, pictured, that Adamson had ‘met and entered into a relationship’ with the girl a number of weeks prior to the offences.
She had been reported missing on 28 January.
Mr Doherty said: “Police enquiries were made to trace her and they received information from neighbours that a young female matching her description had entered John Adamson’s flat using a set of keys.
