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A West Lothian high school teacher who had a six month sexual relationship with a teenage schoolboy has been jailed for 14 months.

Jacqueline Millar, 36, met the pupil at the school she taught at before meeting up with him for sex in her car at a secluded wooded area and at her home in Livingston. Edinburgh Sheriff Court was also told the boy claimed he and the disgraced teacher - who previously taught religious studies - had sex in the school after she had covered up the windows of a classroom.

The illicit relationship was only discovered when Millar was forced to call 999 following an altercation between her and the teenager at her home in March last year. The boy was taken into police custody following the incident and during an interview told an officer that he and the teacher had been in a sexual relationship for several months.

Millar returned to the dock for sentencing at the capital court yesterday (WED) after previously pleading guilty where Sheriff Derek OCarroll described her behaviour as an abuse of your position. Sheriff OCarroll said there had been a considerable degree of planning on Millars behalf and added the case was a very tragic one, particularly for you.

The sheriff said: I very much regret to say in my view regarding the gravity of the offence and your culpability, despite all that has been said in mitigation, there is in my view no alternative to a custodial sentence.

Millar was jailed for 14 months and was placed on the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years. The sheriff said Millars name will also be forwarded to Scottish Ministers to be included on the list of people banned from working with children and vulnerable adults in the future.

Advocate Sarah Livingstone, defending, said her client knew she had committed a very serious offence but that she is not a sexual predator. Ms Livingstone said: She is not someone who set out to sexually abuse the complainer.

She accepts what she did was wrong and accepts full responsibility for it.

Millar pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual activity with a person under 18 while she was in a capacity as a teacher. She pled guilty to kissing him, cuddling him, uttering sexual remarks towards him, sending social media messages and texts of a sexual nature, and repeatedly having sexual intercourse with him at various locations between August 1, 2021 and February 8 last year.

Previously the court was told Millar started at the Lothians high school, which cannot be identified for legal reasons, as a teacher in philosophical, religious and moral studies July 2017. She was then promoted to a separate department and was described in court as a high-flyer and a competent, knowledgable and dedicated professional.

Prosecutor Susan Dickson said Millar first met the pupil at the school in 2020 and concerns were raised by teaching colleagues who believed the relationship was putting her in a difficult position. The court was told Millar and the pupil first kissed in her car after she had picked him up from a football training session in August 2021.

The boy said it was the teacher who initiated the kiss but Millar later claimed it was the lad who had kissed her first. Two weeks later Millar and the pupil drove to a wooded area in East Lothian where she was said to have removed her clothes and sexual intercourse occurred in her car while he was under the legal age of consent.

The court was also told the pair then entered into a relationship and they met up for sex sessions at her home on a regular basis. Ms Dickson said Millar and the boy also had sex within a classroom at the school where she had put paper over the windows to avoid being seen.

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Jordan Yardley is already serving a sentence after 'indulging' in a perverted obsession with children and has now been jailed for a further 17 and a half months following a police raid on his home in Livingston

A serial sexual predator who indulged his perverted fascination for pre-pubescent children through an obsession with computer games has been jailed.

Jordan Yardley, who is already serving a sentence after being recalled to prison, was sentenced to a further 17 and a half months in jail and told his name would remain on the sex offenders register for ten years.

Yardley appeared for sentence at Livingston Sheriff Court after earlier pleading guilty to possessing child pornography.

During a spot check on 25 February last year cops found the 25-year-old had deleted 94 indecent images he downloaded onto his computer after viewing them at his home in Livingston.

Eleven of the images were in category A, showing penetrative sexual activity involving an adult or another child.

A further 17 photographs showed non-penetrative sexual activity such as solo masturbation and the remaining 65 were of children in erotic poses with no sexual activity involving children aged between four and 13 years of age.

Yardley was subject to an extended prison sentence of 39 months imposed in March 2019, with a custodial term of 27 months followed by 12 months post release supervision, which he breached by committing the new offence.

Following his arrest for secretly downloading the vile images, the convicted sex offender was recalled to prison and was due to be released on 9 March next week.

Sheriff Frank Crowe described Yardley as a rather sad individual because he didnt have any hobbies except playing computer games.

He commented: It seems a very short step from computer games to pre-pubescent pornography. Thats been a recurrent theme.

He seems to focus on pre-pubescent children under the age of 13 and you cant lead a normal life with that going on at the back of your mind. I mean its just not natural.

He cant give any explanation and its just a complete vacuum. He just seems very alone and anti-social

Passing sentence, he told Yardley he was still a young man and said that, if he had been looking at the latest case in isolation, he would have imposed a community sentence.

However, he added: What I see is you have two related previous convictions and an interest in young children which goes back to at least 2015.

Its a really poor social work report. You really just shrug your shoulders all the way through and there are no 'green shoots' in this report.

You may have autistic problems but you are not a stupid man. You have some qualifications and there is still an opportunity for you.

The worrying thing is you have no other interest at all other than computer games and that seems to lead to your interest in child pornography.

My advice is to engage in prison and get another interest where you play a bit of football or darts anything other than computers.

I do fear that if you go back out into the community that same surreptitious and nasty behaviour would rear its head again.

Given the unavailability of intensive social work intervention due to the Covid pandemic, the sheriff said he had concluded that the only way to deal with Yardleys offending and protect the public was to impose a custodial sentence.

Paedophile Yardley was previously jailed in 2018 for sending sick messages to what he thought was an under-age schoolgirl offering to take a her to the woods and teach her about sex.

He was busted after sexting the 12-year-old girl and arranging to meet her for sex only to be confronted by paedophile hunters who streamed the encounter live on the internet.

At the time he committed that offence Yardley was still serving a community sentence for his previous offence in 2016 for possessing indecent images of children and was already a registered sex offender.

The remorseless sex beast messaged the decoy that "age was not an issue" and brazenly told the vigilantes that it didnt bother him that he was a paedophile.

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At the High Court in Edinburgh today Lord Uist sentenced Dene Stevenson to 6 years imprisonment after the accused was found guilty of the rape of a 14 year old girl.

On sentencing, Lord Uist made the following statement in court:

You were convicted by the jury at Livingston High Court of the rape of a drunken 14 year old girl in muddy woodland in Livingston on 20 October 2017. You supplied her with alcohol, lay on her, pulled her lower clothing down, forced her legs apart and attempted to lick her vagina, repeatedly attempted to penetrate her vagina with your penis, forced her head towards your penis, restrained her and penetrated her vagina with your penis. After the incident she telephoned a friend in a distressed state and said she had been raped by you. She was also observed by others in a distressed and dishevelled state. You later admitted to her father that you had had intercourse with her. It is a matter of concern that you went out that day when you were drunk and befriended a group of much younger girls before walking off into the woods with your victim.

You are now 21 years old and were 18 years old at the time that you committed this crime. You have only one minor previous conviction, which I shall ignore for present purposes. You have history of drug and alcohol abuse and have not worked for over a year. I have considered the criminal justice social work report on you and all that has been said on your behalf in mitigation. Rape is obviously a serious crime which must attract a significant sentence and in this case it is aggravated by the fact that it was a calculated attack in a public place on a defenceless 14 year old girl who had had far too much to drink. The sentence which I impose is 6 years imprisonment, to run from 23 October 2020.

As a result of that sentence you now become subject to the notification requirements of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 for an indefinite period.

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A COMPUTER consultant who was freed early from a jail sentence after being arrested in Shetland for amassing a huge hoard of child pornography was sent back to prison on Thursday for 15 months after downloading and possessing more indecent images.

Yeoman Smith was released on licence with conditions that he did not access the internet unless supervised and with prior authorisation.

But the judge who jailed him for his original crime said he had blatantly broken the conditions by obtaining computer equipment and committing the same sort of offence.

Lord Uist told Smith at the High Court in Edinburgh: I am in no doubt it is appropriate that I should order you be returned to prison to serve part of the sentence which I imposed on you.

Defence solicitor advocate Sandra Walker said: He has described his desire to view child pornography as an addiction.

The 37 year old was jailed for 25 months in 2011 and put under supervision for a further three years after a friend found child pornography at his flat in Livingstone Place, in Edinburgh.

He had built up a cache of more than half a million still images and in excess of 1800 pieces of footage.

He had gone to Shetland for a family funeral when a downstairs neighbour contacted a friend of his over concerns about a potential water leak from his flat.

The friend went to turn off the water but later found images of children performing sex acts on adult males and contacted police.

Smith was released from prison in April last year and went to stay with relatives in the West Lothian village of Mid Calder but by August was committing similar offences.