A man who raped a 13-year-old schoolgirl in a park when he was 17 has avoided a prison sentence.
Sean Hogg, 21, who raped the girl in Dalkeith Country Park, Midlothian on various occasions in 2018 when he was 17 years old, was instead ordered to do 270 hours of unpaid work and placed on the sex offenders register for three years.
Scotland introduced new guidelines for sentencing in 2022 that treats criminals under the age of 25 more leniently. In this case, the judge said that if Hogg had been over 25 he would have been jailed for four or five years.
TalkTV’s Julia Hartley-Brewer is joined by former Met detective Peter Bleksley to discuss whether Sean Hogg should have been spared jail for committing a rape when he was 17.
“That’s what I’d expect for a speeding offence. Not for rape of a child."
