A pensioner has been ordered to pay £3,000 compensation to a woman he committed sexual offences against when she was a child.
Norman Macdonald of 5-
He originally denied the offences but was found guilty of three charges against young girls following a trial at Stornoway Sheriff Court in April.
Sheriff John Halley sentenced Macdonald to three years probation and placed him on the sex offenders register for the same amount of time.
Sex offender ordered to pay £3,000 to victim
6 June 2015
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The trial heard that over a five year period, Macdonald targeted one of his victims to carry out a sex act on him.
He would grab her hand and place it against his private parts, making her masturbate him.
The court had heard that one time he stripped naked and joined her friend swimming in the sea, pulling her right up to his private parts.
Incidents took place on a beach, along a peat road and elsewhere when Macdonald was in his thirties, the court heard.
Procurator fiscal David Teale had told the jury Macdonald’s behaviour is “all to
do with sexual power, sexual gratification -
The fiscal said Macdonald preyed on the girls when no adults were around and had invented a game to encourage one child to put her hand inside his boiler suit when he was wearing nothing underneath.
During the trial, Macdonald insisted his accusers were waging a vendetta against him.
He claimed they were colluding with each other and he had never been with any off them at the beach named in court.