Serial sex beast caged for 10yrs
Former soldier preyed on kids and women
A PERVERTED former soldier who preyed on vulnerable women and children has been jailed for 10 years.
Peter Johnson, 48, posed as a family man but terrorised and brutalised children as young as eight over a 15-year period.
The Record revealed last month how one victim dubbed him Freddy Krueger after the Nightmare on Elm Street movie monster.
Johnson, from Markinch, Fife, who served with the Black Watch, denied 35 charges but was convicted by a jury at the High Court in Livingston.
The offences took place from 1994 to 2009 at locations including Rosyth Barracks and addresses in Kirkcaldy and Dunfermline.
Sentencing Johnson yesterday at the High Court in Glasgow, judge Lord Kinclaven told him: “Clearly the court requires to mark the seriousness of your offending. There is no alternative to a significant custodial sentence, no other method of dealing with you is appropriate.”
The trial was told one of Johnson’s three women victims was thrown downstairs while pregnant.
She gave birth prematurely as a result and the baby later died.
One of his child victims was forced to strip naked and stand in the cold beside an open window.
A male victim, now 25, told jurors Johnson knew his mother and he was targeted when she was out. Referring to a property where he was abused, he said: “It should be called Elm Street because he’s like Krueger.”
Another child victim told the court Johnson repeatedly abused her and once tried to rape her.
But she struggled so violently he didn’t succeed.
Prosecutor Jane Farquharson said Johnson targeted “highly vulnerable women living in the chaos of grief or drug addictions” and took a “perverted sexual interest” in children. THE QUEEN yesterday opened an award-winning £650,000 family roof garden at a hospital in Aberdeen.
The space is designed to give patients a flavour of the outdoors and help aid their recovery at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. The Queen unveiled a plaque and was shown around the feature, which won awards at Chelsea Flower Show, by designer Prof Nigel Dunnett.