A former senior Scots lawyer has been convicted of historical sex abuse against four children. John Watt QC was hauled back to Scotland from America to face justice after preying on three girls and a boy over 14 years in the 1970s and 80s.
A number of the victims had relatives who were also legal figures at the time. The attacks happened at different properties in Edinburgh's New Town and Leith, as well as another in the West End of the capital.
Watt, now 72, was extradited in 2020 from Oklahoma in the United States, having moved there in the mid-90s with his wife.He denied the crimes during a trial at the High Court in Glasgow pinning the blame on a now dead lawyer for attacks on one girl.
But, Watt was today found guilty of a total of five charges spanning between 1973 and 1987.He was convicted of raping one girl.
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