Pilotiin
2011-07-06 03:22:03 UTC
Lothian Freemason police sergeant guilty of raping two girls. Brother
Paul Greig of Armadale denied raping the sisters.
A Freemason police sergeant has been found guilty of raping two young
girls 36 years ago when he was babysitting them.
Brother Paul Greig of Armadale, 51, denied raping the sisters at a house
in West Lothian between 1974 and 1975.
The Lothian and Borders Freemason police officer had also denied
indecent behaviour with the girls over the same period.
A jury at the High Court in Edinburgh returned a majority verdict on two
charges of rape and two of indecent practices against the girls.
Brother Paul Greig will be sentenced on 10 August.
One of his victims was aged between eight and nine and the other between
six and seven at the time.
Victims 'terrified'
Giving evidence during a week-long trial, the women, now in their 40s,
described how Brother Greig threatened them that if they told anyone
what was happening their dad would go to jail and they would be sent to
a home.
Despite being bathed and put in their pyjamas by their mother before she
left, the women said Freemason Greig would give them another bath and
then sexually abused and raped them.
The women said they had been terrified.
The offences were not reported to the police until January 2010.
In his closing address to the jury, Advocate Depute Andrew Stewart QC
said a delay in reporting such matters did not mean the women were
lying.
Research showed that many victims of sexual assault did not do so either
because of threats or because they felt they would not be believed.
Daughter in tears
Masonic Defence advocate, Brother Tommy Ross, said that because of the
36-year delay in the allegations being made to the police there was no
medical or scientific evidence and the account given to the police was
"total invention".
The girls' mother in her evidence, he said, had found the girls in bed
when she returned home and nothing was said. Neither had neighbours
heard any screaming.
Brother Paul Greig, now a married Freemason with a grown-up son and
daughter, joined the police force in 1993 and has been suspended from
duty since January 2010.
In his evidence, Brother Paul Greig swore on the Bible in Masonic form
and said he could only recollect babysitting the girls on two occasions.
The allegations against him, he said, were absolutely untrue.
When the jury's verdict was announced, his wife and daughter burst into
tears and when judge, Lord Kinclaven remanded Freemason Brother Paul
Greig in custody for reports.
When it was ordered he be placed on the Sex Offenders Register, his
daughter cried out: "Dad, Dad, Dad. Oh my God".
While Brother Paul Greig is in prison, the Freemason Grand Charity
http://grandcharity.org/ will care his wife and the dependents of all
Freemasons in prison.
Paul Greig of Armadale denied raping the sisters.
A Freemason police sergeant has been found guilty of raping two young
girls 36 years ago when he was babysitting them.
Brother Paul Greig of Armadale, 51, denied raping the sisters at a house
in West Lothian between 1974 and 1975.
The Lothian and Borders Freemason police officer had also denied
indecent behaviour with the girls over the same period.
A jury at the High Court in Edinburgh returned a majority verdict on two
charges of rape and two of indecent practices against the girls.
Brother Paul Greig will be sentenced on 10 August.
One of his victims was aged between eight and nine and the other between
six and seven at the time.
Victims 'terrified'
Giving evidence during a week-long trial, the women, now in their 40s,
described how Brother Greig threatened them that if they told anyone
what was happening their dad would go to jail and they would be sent to
a home.
Despite being bathed and put in their pyjamas by their mother before she
left, the women said Freemason Greig would give them another bath and
then sexually abused and raped them.
The women said they had been terrified.
The offences were not reported to the police until January 2010.
In his closing address to the jury, Advocate Depute Andrew Stewart QC
said a delay in reporting such matters did not mean the women were
lying.
Research showed that many victims of sexual assault did not do so either
because of threats or because they felt they would not be believed.
Daughter in tears
Masonic Defence advocate, Brother Tommy Ross, said that because of the
36-year delay in the allegations being made to the police there was no
medical or scientific evidence and the account given to the police was
"total invention".
The girls' mother in her evidence, he said, had found the girls in bed
when she returned home and nothing was said. Neither had neighbours
heard any screaming.
Brother Paul Greig, now a married Freemason with a grown-up son and
daughter, joined the police force in 1993 and has been suspended from
duty since January 2010.
In his evidence, Brother Paul Greig swore on the Bible in Masonic form
and said he could only recollect babysitting the girls on two occasions.
The allegations against him, he said, were absolutely untrue.
When the jury's verdict was announced, his wife and daughter burst into
tears and when judge, Lord Kinclaven remanded Freemason Brother Paul
Greig in custody for reports.
When it was ordered he be placed on the Sex Offenders Register, his
daughter cried out: "Dad, Dad, Dad. Oh my God".
While Brother Paul Greig is in prison, the Freemason Grand Charity
http://grandcharity.org/ will care his wife and the dependents of all
Freemasons in prison.
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