SeX BeaST’S SICK SORRY Child rapist apologises by letter – then pleads not guilty

A child rapist wrote a letter of confession to a victim of his sexual abuse.

Kevin Nichol began preying on children more than 30 years ago and went on to rape one girl and tried to rape another.

But despite the sex beast penning the apology, he pleaded not guilty when he was charged and brought to court.

This meant his victim faced the ordeal of going into the witness box to give evidence.

In the letter Nichol (53) said: “I just want to say I am sorry for what I did. I don’t know why I did it. There must be something wrong with me.”

He claimed that he needed help but did not know where to go.

Nichol went on: “I needed to write this letter to you. It may mean nothing to you but I am so sorry.”

Nichol, of Cadell Place, Fauldhouse, denied a string of charges but was found guilty of six offences of indecent behaviour, attempted rape and rape on Monday. The plasterer began targeting his first victim when she was aged five between October 1983 and September the following year, advocate depute James Keegan QC told

the High Court in Edinburgh. The accused’s behaviour towards the girl escalated and he went on to assault and rape her between October 1985 and September 1990.

The victim, now 39, told the court that she was crying at the painful ordeal she was subjected to during repeated rapes.

The woman rejected a defence assertion that what she said about Nichol raping her as a child was “lies”.

Nichol went on to turn his attention to a second girl whom he also molested from the age of five, beginning in 1994 in Bathgate, and went on to carry out sex acts on the child and tried to rape her on one occasion between 1998 and 2000.

Mr Keegan told jurors that Nichol had systematically pursued a course of criminal conduct against the children.

The prosecutor said that the accused began to touch his first victim inappropriately when the opportunity presented itself but he went on to abuse her on many occasions with his behaviour escalating in seriousness.

Nichol, who has a previous conviction for sex crime, had been on bail throughout his trial but after he was found guilty he was remanded in custody by a judge.

Lord Ericht called for the preparation of a background report ahead of sentencing next month. He told jurors it had been “a very unpleasant case”.

Nichol was placed on the sex offenders’ register and Scottish ministers will be informed of his conviction under legislation to designed to protect vulnerable groups.