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Grampian HMP prisoner committed sexual offences at Elgin Bus Station and McDonald’s against friend’s 14-year-old daughter





A convicted sex offender who made advances towards a friend’s 14-year-old daughter and sent her naked images of himself left her with "substantial and ongoing effects".

Stewart Barclay, designated as a prisoner at Grampian HMP, appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court and admitted to coercing the girl into looking at sexual pictures and communicating indecently with her between June and December 2022.

The case was heard at Inverness Sheriff Court.
The case was heard at Inverness Sheriff Court.

He did so at Elgin Bus Station, a house in the town, McDonald's restaurant and elsewhere - as well as in Turriff.

He was appearing for sentence before Sheriff Gary Aitken who told Barclay the charge was "grave in the extreme and demonstrated a course of behaviour over six months".

Sheriff Aitken jailed Barclay for 32 months and placed the 24-year-old on a six-year-long Sexual Harm Prevention Order, which includes severe restrictions on Barclay's internet use and a ban on communicating deliberately with any child under the age of 16.

He added: "The public can be properly protected and you can be properly managed by an SHPO rather than imposing an extended sentence.

“Any breach of the order means you can be brought back and sentenced."

Due to the length of the prison term, Barclay is on the Sex Offender's Register indefinitely which means he must report any new address and some personal activities like opening new bank accounts to police tasked with closely monitoring him.

At a previous hearing, Inverness Sheriff Court heard he asked the teenager to become his girlfriend and she initially treated it as a joke.

But Sheriff Sara Matheson, who was presiding on that occasion, heard that his approaches became more sinister when he asked to touch her intimately and sent her photographs of his genitals, of himself fully naked and a short video of him pleasuring himself.

Fiscal depute Alison Wylie said that the girl continually told the 24-year-old that she did not want to see material like that and it was "grossing her out."

Mrs Wylie said: "On receipt of the images, she would immediately swipe them away to get rid of them.

“He would repeatedly ask her to send him back pictures in return of her vagina or breasts but she refused to do so and never sent him any.

“She replied that she was 'not like that' and it was 'just wrong.'

"On one occasion he told her to 'get naked', she refused and he said he was just joking but the interaction made her feel uncomfortable.

"During a routine visit by police on March 8, 2023, a phone number was found on his phone which was attributed to her.

“It was called by a detective and she disclosed to him that he had sent her naked images of himself.

“On April 18, 2023, she gave a statement to police disclosing all the events."





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