THE woman who Sean Hogg was convicted of raping while she was 13 has said she has “no hope of closure” after the conviction was quashed ...
THE woman who Sean Hogg was convicted of raping while she was 13 has said she has “no hope of closure” after
He was spared jail by Judge Lord Lake at the High Court in Glasgow in April and was instead given 270 hours of unpaid work, although he said if Hogg was over 25, he would have been sentenced to four or five years behind bars.Judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh quashed the conviction after prosecutors admitted “mistakes were made” during his trial.
“Whilst she appreciates that senior judges have come to this decision after very careful consideration, nonetheless that does not take away from her feeling of devastation and knowing that there is no hope of closure. “My client’s grandmother has said that they have been left to pick up the shattered pieces of their granddaughter’s life. They felt they were left in the dark by the Crown. Now they must protect their granddaughter whose life has been turned back six years to when she was 13.“It is clear that the trial judge misdirected himself and in doing so, misdirected the jury. The appeal was grounded on procedural unfairness.
The Crown Office had planned to challenge the “unduly lenient” sentence of unpaid work, if the appeal against conviction had not succeeded.
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