Judge condemns ex-Navy monster who raped and molested teenagers
BY DAVE FINLAY reporters@dailyrecord.co.uk A PERVERTED veteran who raped a schoolgirl and sexually assaulted another youngster has been jailed for nine years.
Scott Forbes also placed a hidden camera in another victim’s bedroom and recorded footage of her while she was naked and getting dressed.
Yesterday, a judge told former Navy man Forbes, 49, that the corrosive effect of his behaviour on his victims was “incalculable”.
Lord Woolman added: “You have altered the course of their lives.”
The judge said that Forbes offending showed he was a sexual predator and told him: “Your name will remain on the sex offenders’ register for an indefinite period.”
At the High Court in Edinburgh, Lord Woolman also ordered that the ex-serviceman be kept under supervision for a further four years after his release.
The judge said he had narrowly decided against calling for a full risk assessment report to be prepared on Forbes.
That could have can led to the making of an Order for Lifelong Restriction.
He told Forbes he was prepared to treat him as a first offender and noted that he had medical problems which have prevented him working for eight years.
Forbes, formerly of Firrhill Park, in Edinburgh, was earlier convicted following a jury trial of five offences committed between 2009 and May last year.
These included rape, sexual assault and possessing and making indecent images of children.
His trial heard how he locked a 14-year-old in a house in Edinburgh and made sexual remarks to the child. He molested and raped her and photographed her naked.
He also plied another 14-year-old with drink, showed her pornography and molested her.
He exposed her breasts and photographed them while she was intoxicated at an address in Edinburgh last May.
Forbes was also found to have set up equipment at a house in Bonnyrigg, in Midlothian, to covertly shoot and record footage of a third victim in April last year.
David Nicholson, defending, said Forbes continued to deny the serious sexual offending.
He noted that his client had been on long-term sick leave following a variety of health problems.
He told the court that Forbes has a neurological condition and was previously diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
The defence counsel said that arose primarily from Forbes’s service when he was stationed in Iraq and the Arabian Gulf.
He added: “He is not somebody with any difficulty with drugs or alcohol.”