Sex predator caged after 30-year reign of terror
A SERIAL sex predator who raped and abused women and children was given an indeterminate jail sentence yesterday – similar to the one he is serving in England.
Jack Grant, 54, was 15 when he committed his first crimes against a girl aged nine who he later subjected to rape ordeals at houses in Livingston.
A string of victims were subjected to a catalogue of
BY DAVE FINLAY violence, sexual abuse and cruelty in the three decades of cross-border crime that followed.
Grant was later given a sentence of imprisonment for public protection by the courts in England.
A judge at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday imposed an Order for Lifelong Restriction on him for 11 offences committed in Scotland between 1980 and 2010 against six victims.
Lord Burns ordered that he must serve at least five years before he can apply for release.
The judge told Grant: “The sexual abuse of these complainers, as you must appreciate, represents some of the most serious encountered in these courts.”
BY RICK FULTON r.fulton@dailyrecord.co.uk
IT SEEMS the luck of the Irish can strike twice as Eve Hewson becomes the new star of Sunday night television. The 28-year-old from Dublin is the second daughter of U2 megastar Bono and his activist wife Ali. While her parents didn’t want her to become an actress, she has steadily made a name for herself alongside Sean Penn in 2011 film This Must Be The Place, the big-budget Hollywood remake of Robin Hood and now as the lead in The Luminaries – a series also starring Bond actress Eva Green – based on Eleanor Catton’s 2013 Man Booker Prize winning novel. And while Eve, who is based in New York but has spent lockdown at her parents’ home in Dublin, knows being Bono’s daughter opens doors, she is adamant it’s been up to her to get the jobs.