Pensioner jailed for decades of abuse

A pensioner who abused six children over four decades shook his head in disbelief after a judge jailed him for seven years.

David Brown,77, targeted the children, who cannot be named for legal reasons, at locations across Scotland between 1987 and 2014. The High Court in Edinburgh heard how Brown repeatedly raped a nine-year-old boy at a location in Stirlingshire between September 2012 and September 2014.

He also repeatedly physically assaulted a young girl between November 1987 and November 1992 at a house in Methil, Fife.

Brown also repeatedly sexually assaulted a young boy in the town between August 1987 and August 1992. The youth was aged just four at the time the abuse began.

Between July 2009 and January 2010, Brown sexually assaulted a girl at a house in Lochgelly. She was aged 13 when Brown started preying on her.

Brown also sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl in Lochgelly in April 2009 and continued to abuse her until January 2010. He asked an 11-year-old girl to go to bed with him in February 2007 and continued to touch her inappropriately for another year.

Judge Lord Tyre yesterday told Brown the only sentence available to him was prison.