Brothers subjected 19 year old girl to "appalling" sexual assaults
NC/GETTY Stewart met the victim on a dating site, later assaulted her with his brother STOCK PHOTO
Alexander Stewart met the victim through a dating website before taking part in the sex attacks with his older, domineering sibling, Christopher Drummond – a convicted sex offender. Yesterday, at the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lady Carmichael told the pair: “Together, you subjected the 19-year-old complainer to an appalling series of sexual assaults.” She added: “It was clear from the evidence that you, Christopher Drummond, dominated Alexander Stewart.” She jailed Drummond for seven years for his part in the rapes and his younger brother for four-and-a-half years. The judge told Stewart that she considered him as someone prone to manipulation by his older, high-risk brother and that he was genuinely afraid of him. But the judge told Drummond his attitude to women was “extremely troubling”.
NC Both brothers were found guilty at Edinburgh Crown Court
Together, you subjected the 19-year-old complainer to an appalling series of sexual assaults Judge Lady Carmichael
The judge ordered that Stewart, 20, should be given a further period of supervision for 18 months and told both brothers they would be on the sex offenders register indefinitely. The attack happened at Stewart’s home at a flat in Invergordon, Easter Ross, in October last year. A woman who saw the teenager following the assault and rapes committed on her said she was “crying hysterically”. Drummond, 23, described as a “prisoner” and Stewart, of High Street, Invergordon, had denied assault and rape but were both found guilty.
GETTY Drummond, the elder of the two, was described as a 'prisoner' (STOCK PICTURE POSED BY MODEL)
A woman told the court that she had gone to Stewart’s flat with her children and the victim on the night of the attack. Christopher Drummond was also there when they arrived, she added. The witness said that later he got the teenager to sit on his knee. The woman said: “He was touching her in a playful way round her waist.” She added that Drummond and Stewart were drinking.
GETTY The two brothers were sentenced to over 11 years between them
Some time later, the woman said she wanted to take the children home and also tried to get the teenager to come with her but she said she wanted to stay. She told advocate depute Keith Stewart QC that she was concerned that the teenager should come back to her home. The witness said that everyone eventually left the flat, including Drummond and Stewart, to walk her home with the children. She recalled later receiving a phone call from the teenager and added: “Her voice sounded scared. “I said, ‘What’s wrong? What’s wrong?’. She said, ‘I am on the way back to you’.”
GETTY Drummond received a harsher sentence as he was seen as the more 'domineering' of the two STOCK PHOTO