Aberdeen sex attacker jailed 11 years after first attack

A sex attacker who carried out two terrifying rape bids on strangers 11 years apart was today jailed for four years and six months.

Christopher Kenn, also known as Lumsden, admitted assaulting both his victims with intent to rape.

At the High Court in Glasgow judge Lord Mulholland told 45-year-old Kenn: "These two women were strangers to you. They were entitled to go about their business without being accosted by you.

"You said that, had you not been disturbed, you intended to rape both these women. That is very disturbing. You know the harm you were doing to these women, they were screaming, upset and crying."

Lord Mulholland ordered Kenn to be monitored in the community for three years on licence after his release from prison.

Kenn first pounced on a 25-year-old woman in Aberdeen as she was heading home from a night out in 2008.

The 45-year-old remained at large because police were unable to identify the culprit.

It meant Kenn was then free to attack a 16 year-old schoolgirl in the city in January 2019 after following her off a bus.

He later claimed to have attacked the petrified teenager "by accident."

A DNA check late rpinned the crime from more than a decade earlier on him.

Kenn initially struck in the early hours of September 16 2008 in Orchard Street, Aberdeen.

He pushed the woman to the ground and lay on top of her. Kenn repeatedly tried to pin her arms down.

Prosecutor Allan Nicol told the victim "screamed for help."

A man living nearby heard her pleas and raced out and Kenn ran off.

His victim was in a "state of distress."

DNA was found on the knee of her tights – but there was no match at that time.

Kenn went on to put the teenage girl through a horrific ordeal in January this year after following her onto a bus.

The 16 year-old spoke to her dad on the phone during the journey.

Mr Nicol: "She said she felt as if she was being watched. The girl said she would tell her dad when she got home."

The girl spotted Kenn "staring" at her, but ignored him.

However, shortly after getting off the bus, Kenn jumped on top her, put his arm around her neck and covered her mouth.

As she was bundled to the ground, the he repeatedly punched the teenager before molesting her.

He was described at one point as "growling" during the attack in Aberdeen's Byron Crescent.

A woman walking her dog heard what was happening and came to the girl's aid and Kenn ran off.

He was captured on CCTV from the bus which helped to snare him.

He told police: "I assaulted a school lassie by accident." Kenn also claimed it was "stupid."

Mr Nicol: "He said he had not see her before and that it was not pre-meditated."

The court heard Kenn was then caught for the 2008 attack via a DNA hit.

Kenn, who has learning difficulties, was placed on on the sex offenders list.

Defence counsel Tony Lenehan said: "He has had the honesty to accept what he has done, which I suggest is unusual in this type of offending."