Swim coach raped five women

Worried parents have demanded to know how a “predatory paedophile” got a job teaching young children to swim at public pools.

Serial rapist Gavin Scoular worked for more than a year at The Royal Commonwealth Pool and Portobello Swim Centre in Edinburgh, it has emerged.

Scoular, 23, is facing a life sentence after being convicted last week of raping five young women. A mother, whose daughter attended Scoular’s swimming lessons at the Commonwealth Pool seven years ago, said: “I think we need some answers about how carefully Edinburgh Leisure checks the background of people working in jobs like this.”

Edinburgh Leisure, the arms-length company set up in 1998 by The City of Edinburgh Council to run all the capital’s pools, failed to respond to requests for comment yesterday.