Man Jailed For Aberdeenshire Rape

A rapist who forced an underage girl to carry out a sex act on him while her mother was in the next room was jailed for three years today.

Andrzej Barwik's victim earlier told a court that he had threatened to hit her is she did not do it.

Barwick had denied raping the girl at a house in a village in Aberdeenshire in February last year but was found guilty of the crime after a trial.

A judge told the 32-year-old: "You have been convicted of a single, but serious, charge."

Lady Wise told him at the High Court in Edinburgh that he had caused "considerable distress and trauma" following his assault on the vulnerable 14-year-old girl.

The judge said: "I note you continue to deny the commission of this offence."

"The single act of which you were convicted is undoubtedly sufficiently serious to merit a reasonably significant custodial sentence as a punishment and to act as a deterrent," she said.

Barwik, formerly of Fraserburgh, was found guilty of assaulting the teenager by uttering threats of violence, and sexually assaulting her.

Defence counsel Drew McKenzie said that Barwik historically had a good work record and was in employment in Poland before moving to Scotland and working here.

The defence counsel said it was recognised that a jail sentence was "almost inevitable" following the conviction.

Barwik was placed on the sex offenders' register.