Sunday Mail (UK)

Security boss targeted children at friend’s home

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incestuous relationsh­ip with her younger brother – just because she had let him into the bathroom to be sick after he had drunk too much. She concealed herself behind the shower curtain. She said to Young: “How would you like it if I said that to you about you and the girls?” Yo u n g had replied that the older girl was “easy”, adding that the younger girl “was the hard one”.

But the girls did not disclose what had happened until years later.

Young, of Scotstoun, Glasgow, denied the charges but did not give evidence.

Defence agent Alastair Ross said Young was now “retired” and lived alone in a housing associatio­n property.

The court heard that Young had no previous sexual offending record but a history of violence, including a conviction at the High Court in

Young was banned from being a director for seven years by the Department of Trade and industry in 1999 for offences against the public interest.

He then emerged as an “employee” at the now dissolved Frontline Security Group (Scotland) Ltd, which was closely linked to Ferris.

Sher i f f Wyl l ie Rober tson remanded him in custody to be sentenced on April 26 and placed him on the sex offenders’ register.

He said: “I’m going to adjourn for a social work report which will address any requiremen­t there may be for post-release supervisio­n.

“Considerin­g the nature of these offences, of which you have now been found guilty, and taking into account your record, which is of a considerab­ly violent nature, I have taken the view that a sentence of imprisonme­nt is all but inevitable.”

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