Sexual predator back in court for frightening boy

By Michael MacLeod

A CONVICTED paedophile who once groomed a teenage actress from the Harry Potter films has insisted he is “not evil” after scaring a nine year-old boy to tears.

Ex-squaddie Douglas McNaught is banned for life from speaking to children having served a six year jail term for a sex attack on a young girl.

But the 61 year-old has admitted breaking the terms of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order less than a year after it was imposed.

He left the boy terrified after a pouncing on a chance encounter in the street last September.

Paedo who groomed Harry Potter actress chased from home

By Rory Reynolds

A SEX offender has been rescued by police after a gang of furious vigilante locals descended on his home.

Plain-clothes police in unmarked cars escorted ex-soldier Douglas McNaught from his home in Prestonfield Avenue, Edinburgh, for the second time in a week after being harassed by a baying mob last Thursday.

Last week police took the 61-year-old away after his car was vandalised and he was intimidated by local residents.

He returned only for the same to happen again on Thursday, with neighbours determined to rid their area of the convicted paedophile – who was jailed in 1993 for lewd, indecent and libidinous practices towards a young girl.

It was later found that he had carried out a two-year campaign of abuse against the underage girl.