Cross-dressing butcher learns fate following appeal to reduce sentence

A man who abducted and sexually abused a schoolgirl in the Borders has failed in a bid to get his sentence reduced.

Andrew Miller (pictured above), from Gattonside, claimed the 20-year jail term was excessive and put "too much weight" on his transgender identity.

The 54-year-old, who also goes by the name Amy George, was dressed as a woman when he lured the youngster into his car in February last year.

Appeal judges considered those points and his early guilty plea but decided the sentence was proportionate to the crimes committed.

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Miller took the girl back to his house in the Scottish Borders and subjected her to repeated attacks, which a judge described as "every parent's worst nightmare".

He pleaded guilty to charges of abduction, sexual assault, watching pornography in the presence of the child under the age of 13, and possessing 242 indecent images of children in May 2023.

As well as his jail term, Miller will also serve a further eight years on licence under supervision in the community on his release.

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