Queen's relative released from jail after 'serving half his sentence' following Scots castle sex attack

dailyrecord.co.uk:

sexually assaulting a woman at a castle has been released from prison. Simon Bowes-Lyon, 35, the Earl of Strathmore, was sentenced to 10 months in February for the late-night attack on a guest staying at Glamis Castle in Angus, his ancestral home.

Bowes-Lyon, the son of a cousin of the Queen, is understood to have been released from HMP Perth last week after serving half his sentence.

He was sentenced at Dundee Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to the assault, which happened in a bedroom at the castle 12 months earlier in February 2020.The court heard the victim was attending a three-day public relations event at the 16,500-acre estate and had gone to bed when a "drunk" Bowes-Lyon went to her room at around 1.20am.He persuaded her to open.