Sex Attacker Jailed For Assaulting Woman In Aberdeen

A man who was recognised on a CCTV image by his mother and sister was jailed for 14 months for his assault on a woman in Aberdeen. Craig Taylor's mother confronted him and told him to leave the house and his sister contacted police after they had circulated the footage. A judge told rejected a plea to spare Taylor a jail sentence and told him: "In my view, this case can only properly be dealt with by a sentence of imprisonment." Edward Bowen QC told him he had to take into account the public interest in a matter of this kind. The judge said that Taylor would be on the sex offenders' register for 10 years following his conviction. He told Taylor at the High Court in Edinburgh that he would have been jailed for 18 months, but for his guilty plea. 24 year old Taylor was originally charged with attempting to rape a 39-year-old woman at a lane at Spring Garden, in Aberdeen, on August 31 in 2013. But the Crown accepted his guilty plea to a reduced charge of assaulting the victim while she was under the influence of alcohol, pushing her, pulling downn her lower clothing, undoing his trousers and exposing himself.