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.

Teacher banned for life after admitting affair with pupil

By Alexander Lawrie

A SCOTS teacher who admitted to having sex with a 15 year-old pupil has been banned from teaching for life.

Alison Smith, 30, from Aberdeen, was struck from the teaching register after a General Teaching Council Scotland panel found the special needs teacher unfit to carry on working in schools.

In striking Smith’s name from the register the GTCS sub-committee said the teacher’s actions had “had harmed the child”.

The guilt-ridden teacher was forced to hand herself into police after it emerged she had slept with the underage boy on June 15 2008.

Smith was handed a sentence of 18 month’s probation and ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service when she appeared in front of Aberdeen Sheriff Court in January.