Rapist jailed for £34k wrecking spree in Angus.

Sheriff tells 18-year-old he needs to grow up after sentencing him to 19 months’ detention

A rapist is back behind bars after he admitted twice starting fires and trashing a secure unit, causing £34,000worth of damage.

Andrew Brolly, who was unmasked as the perpetrator of a horrific sex attack after he turned 18, was locked up for 19 months yesterday.

He was sent to detention in 2015 for raping a 13-year-old girl in woods in Pollok, Glasgow, when he was aged just 14. The mother of Brolly’s victim said at the time she was “disgusted” by the sentence as he would serve only a fraction of it before being released.

Having been released on licence in September 2016, after serving half his sentence, Brolly was hauled back to custody on another matter.

He was taken to Rossie Young Person’s Trust near Montrose in March last year to serve out the remainder of his custodial sentence having been free for just six months.

He twice set fires that led to mass evacuations and substantial damage over the course of just over a week because he was demanding to be transferred to Polmont YOI.

Depute fiscal Eilidh Robertson told Dundee Sheriff Court the two blazes had caused “extensive damage” with a total value of £34,195.98.

She said on the night of the first fire Brolly had told a manager at the unit: “I am going to set fire to this place so you better get me paper.”

Miss Robertson added: “The manager refused so he went in to his en suite and set fire to a piece of cardboard in there before moving bedding in to the en suit and allowing it to catch fire too.

“Smoke was filling his bedroom so they let him out and called the Fire Brigade. Two days later he was in a lounge area when he began to rip a sofa before he removed a metal bar from inside it and started repeatedly hitting a television.

“He was asked to hand over the metal bar but he then jumped on top of the TV and tried to smash the ceiling lights before jumping off and swinging the bar.

“The lounge was evacuated and police called.

“He moved furniture to effectively barricade himself in and struck a TV, DVD player and Freeview box damaging them beyond repair and threw paint

“You are behaving like a three year old and you need to grow up. SHERIFF ALASTAIR BROWN

over the walls, ceiling, furnishings and windows.”

A week later Brolly started another, larger, blaze.

Miss Robertson said: “Residents were able to be evacuated very quickly.

“The smoke within the unit became very thick, with a member of staff telling police ‘I had to go back and get the other kids out of their rooms due to the amount of smoke – there was so much smoke I could hardly see’.

“There was faeces on the lit mattress which contaminated firefighters’ clothing and breathing apparatus.”

Brolly, 18, a prisoner at HMP YOI Polmont, pled guilty to setting a fire at Rossie on May 28 last year, assaulting a staff member on May 29, vandalising the unit on both of those dates, and setting another fire on June 6.

He also admitted a charge of making threatening phone calls to a 17-year-old girl from Polmont YOI while being held there.

Defence solicitor Christopher Boyle said: “He is not a model citizen.”

Sheriff Alastair Brown sentenced Brolly to a total of 19 months’ detention.

He said: “You are behaving like a three year old and you need to grow up.

“If you have any spark of decency in you, you will recognise that.”

Andrew Brolly lit fires and damaged equipment at the Rossie secure unit near Montrose.