{"id":110382,"date":"2025-05-18T00:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T00:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/110382\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T00:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T00:44:08","slug":"scotlands-worst-ever-paedophile-had-capital-jaunt-cut-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/110382\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland’s worst ever paedophile had capital jaunt cut short"},"content":{"rendered":"

A NOTORIOUS paedophile given hostel trips away from prison is back behind bars after a Scottish Sun on Sunday investigation.<\/p>\n

James Rennie, 54, had his latest week-long jaunt to Edinburgh<\/a> cut short just a day after we quizzed jail<\/a> chiefs about him and beast pal Neil Strachan, 57, enjoying overlapping capital visits.<\/p>\n

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Two notorious paedos James Rennie and his beast pal Neil Strachan had overlapping Edinburgh visitsCredit: PA:Press Association\"Man<\/a><\/p>\n

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Neil Strachan was pictured at the Crane Hostel in the capitalCredit: Michael Schofield, News Group Newspapers Ltd\"Scottish<\/a><\/p>\n

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The depraved pair were part of Scotland’s biggest paedo ring<\/p>\n

The trips are part of a move towards releasing the duo \u2014 who led Scotland\u2019s biggest paedophile<\/a> ring \u2014 back into the community.<\/p>\n

Scottish Tory community safety<\/a> spokeswoman Sharon Dowey said: \u201cIt should not have taken this newspaper to force the home<\/a> leave of this dangerous<\/a> offender to be cut short. <\/p>\n

“The prison<\/a> service must guarantee this pair are kept away from each other to stop them putting public safety at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

We watched as Rennie, who sexually assaulted a three-month-old baby, and Strachan, who tried to rape<\/a> a boy of 18 months, were briefly inside Crane Hostel in New Town at the same time. <\/p>\n

The pair, both from Edinburgh, were caged in 2009 after being caught along with six other sickos in a ring involving 125,000 indecent images and videos<\/a> of children<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rennie, ex-chief executive of LGBT Youth Scotland<\/a>, also conspired to get access to kids<\/a> in order to abuse them.<\/p>\n

Both he and Strachan enjoy a relaxed environment<\/a> at Castle<\/a> Huntly open prison, near Dundee. <\/p>\n

A source said: \u201cRennie got taken back to Castle Huntly on Friday, so never got his home leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Scottish Prison Service said: \u201cWe don\u2019t comment on individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n

We previously told how the ringleaders of a huge paedophile network<\/a> had been wandering the streets and staying in the same digs.<\/p>\n

Mum’s fury after paedo who lured her son, 6, into woods ‘LET OFF with softer sentence’<\/p>\n

Sources also say the\u00a0paedophile\u00a0partnership\u00a0freely\u00a0fraternise at low\u00a0security<\/a>\u00a0Castle\u00a0Huntly nick, near\u00a0Dundee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One said: \u201cIt\u2019s disgusting. There are loads of them in\u00a0Castle\u00a0Huntly and they all go about with each other growing their network.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are even locked up in the same hall in the\u00a0prison, so when the doors are closed at 7.30pm at night they sit in each others cells.\u201d<\/p>\n

The source added: \u201cThese two shouldn\u2019t be allowed out for what they did, never mind for seven days at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The sicko has had his hostel time cut short after the Scottish Sun on Sunday probeCredit: Andrew Barr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NOTORIOUS paedophile given hostel trips away from prison is back behind bars after a Scottish Sun on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,30,188,1102,4884,530,712,5120,5119,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-110382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-edinburgh","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-police-scotland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-scottish-crime","16":"tag-section-newsscottish-news","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114526071281992757","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}