Violent offences soar

HE was jailed for grooming two teenage girls on social networking sites then filming himself having sex with them.

Donnelly, of Shotts, Lanarkshire, got them to dress in school uniforms for sex sessions.

He admitted three charges of having sex with two underage girls.

He also admitted making or downloading child porn between January 2004 and December 2011.

Then 30, he was jailed for 44 months in 2012. A FORMER policeman and his lover plotted to conceive a baby to abuse, rape and share with other paedophiles.

Alexander McCracken and Sharon Campbell, then 35 and 39, shared fantasies of raping and murdering children online.

McCracken, of Ayr, had spent nine years with Strathclyde Police before being exposed in 2010 as a swinger and £400-anight bisexual prostitute.

The pair were each jailed for four-and-a-half years in 2015. ROAN groomed a 12-year-old boy using online messages while sitting a few feet away from him in an Edinburgh library. The then 22-year-old tried to convince the child over Facebook to go outside to take part in a sex act. SMITH, 45, was caught by vigilantes when he travelled from Kilmarnock to abuse a child in Gateshead. In reality, “Rebecca” turned out to be a fake identity of a 14-year-old created by the group. HE groomed a 14-year-old Scots girl on his Xbox then had sex with her in a tent. They met online and he persuaded her to visit him in Hartlepool, Teesside. Clode, 22, was jailed for six years in 2013 for charges including sexual activity with a child. THE former Radio Clyde DJ, 58, of Glasgow, was jailed for three years after being lured into admitting he sexually abused a child aged 10 to 11 by a suspicious friend online. VIOLENT crimes such as murder and serious assault have increased by six per cent in just a year.

Official figures reveal 7164 recorded across Scotland, the second annual increase in a row.

Violent sexual crimes are recorded separately and are at their highest level since 1971. Overall recorded crime fell three per cent in a year – reflecting reductions in dishonesty, fire-raising and vandalism.

Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said: “Through our strong and sustained focus on prevention, violent crime is now almost half the level it was a decade ago.”