Man is jailed for abusing children

He told her to “pretend I am your boyfriend”.

Giving evidence, the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she woke to find Galloway “trying to kiss” her.

“I was in bed, he was beside me. He tried to kiss me.

“He asked me to pretend I was with my boyfriend.”

Second victim slept in locked cupboard

His second victim recalled how, in the mid-1990s, she had woken in her bed in Aberdeen with Galloway crouched beside her.

He was touching her inappropriately under the covers.

“I felt something moving between my thighs,” she told the court.

“After a moment I woke up. He was kneeling at the side of my bed. His hands were under the blanket.

“He said I was making a noise and had come to check on me.”

She said: “He then came back 20 minutes later and I sat right up and asked him why he had come back into my room.”

The girl slept in another room the next night, inside a cupboard which had a lock on it.

Sentencing Galloway to three months in prison, Sheriff Lindsay Foulis said he could only punish the sex offender with the methods available at the time.

“Both of these offences, committed by you, happened some time ago – the first in the 1970s and the second in the 1990s.

“But I do not wish to be dismissive of the consequences for your victims.

“The maximum sentence which could have been imposed at the time is three months in custody. It seems appropriate.”

Defence solicitor Grant Bruce, in mitigation, said: “The risk assessment carried out appears to show a low risk of Galloway committing further offences.”

Galloway was sent to prison for three months and placed on the sex offenders register for seven years.

Scott Galloway.