Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser

Child rapist Renwick is given three more years behind bars

- Court Reporter

A Coatbridge paedophile imprisoned for raping three young girls has been given an additional three years in jail for other sex crimes against children.

In 2015, the Advertiser reported depraved Arthur Renwick, 60, was sentenced to 12 years for the rapes.

And now the pervert has pleaded guilty to the historic abuse of four girls — two of whom were aged just six.

Father-of-six Renwick admitted exposing himself to victims, removing their clothes and making them dance naked in front of him.

He also admitted touching his victims, asking them to carry out sex acts and forcing them to touch him.

Two of the victims were six when Renwick began abusing them and he continued to molest one of them until she was 13.

He preyed on another girl when she was aged between eight and 13, and carried out sex acts in the presence of another child when she was aged between 13 and 15.

Renwick originally faced 18 charges and pled guilty to eight. The offences took place at addresses in Lanarkshir­e, and in a parked car, between September 1989 and 2001.

Renwick is one of the most reviled child molesters in Scotland. He was found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow in May 2015 of a revolting catalogue of child sex abuse, including the rape of three girls.

Jurors heard that Renwick took pictures of himself raping his victims and bribed two of the children with cash to carry out sickening acts.

He kept a computer spreadshee­t detailing how much he had paid them.

Shameless Renwick claimed the children had actually groomed him, but was found guilty of rape.

He was also convicted of abusing another girl, possessing indecent photos of some of his victims and making indecent remarks to two boys and a girl, all in his Coatbridge home between 2006 and 2013.

One of the raped girls went to police in 2013, when she was 14. Detectives began an investigat­ion and other victims were traced.

The other girls Renwick raped were aged between 12 and 14.

Detective Chief Inspector Paul Livingston­e said: “Renwick groomed his victims over a long period and subjected them to an appalling ordeal.”

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Face of evil Arthur Renwick

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