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A pervert who sexually abused two young boys was jailed today for one year.

David Exley, 43, preyed on the six and nine-year-olds at his home in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, between July 2022 and January 2023.

Construction worker Exley repeatedly removed one of the boys' underwear while he was asleep.

He also pulled down the underwear of both boys and intimately touched them.

Exley denied the allegations and claimed the six-year-old victim "rehearsed" his evidence to police officers.

However, first offender Exley was found guilty by Sheriff David Taylor at Glasgow Sheriff Court of two charges of sexual assault.

The sheriff said: "The similarities in time and place and the circumstances of the sexual assaults were such that each of the boys' evidence corroborated each other."

Sheriff Taylor put Exley on the sex offenders register for 10 years at today's sentencing.

Exley previously told the court in his evidence that there was one occasion when he did pull down one of the children's underwear.

Prosecutor Darren Harty asked why he did it and Exley replied: "It was just a bit of fun between me and the children."

One of the boys told the police officers in an interview that Exley removed his underwear while he was asleep.

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A SEX attacker from Bonhill who raped three different people in Dumbarton and the Vale is facing a lengthy spell behind bars.

Paul Callanin was found guilty of preying on three different victims in Alexandria, Balloch, Dumbarton and Renton between 2005 and 2013.

The first woman was targeted at different addresses in Alexandria.

Jurors heard how Callanin, 35, pushed the woman onto a bed, held her down and raped her.

The second woman was attacked in a car park in Desire Nightclub in Balloch on Christmas Day 2011.

Callanin is said to have also bitten her during the incident and shoved her onto the ground.

He the raped again to her injury that same day at a flat in Renton.

The final victim was initially subjected to a sex attack at a photography studio in Dumbarton.

Callanin went on to rape them, also at a flat in Renton.

Callanin, of Broomhill Crescent, had denied the accusations during a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

But, he was convicted of lewd and libidinous conduct against the first victim as well as a separate charge of raping her.

He was found guilty of two rape charges involving the second woman.

Callanin was also convicted of sexual assault and raping the third victim.

Judge William Summers adjourned the case for reports until March 9, when Callanin will appear at the High Court in Aberdeen.

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