{"id":663433,"date":"2025-12-30T23:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/663433\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T23:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:01:20","slug":"depraved-edinburgh-man-who-carried-out-series-of-horrific-attacks-on-children-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/663433\/","title":{"rendered":"Depraved Edinburgh man who carried out series of horrific attacks on children jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Stobie, 70, was sentenced to 12 years and nine months for the offences.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/607179888_1274045934528455_6207717008737885425_n.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Stobie, 70\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Brian Stobie, 70(Image: Police Scotland )<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A man has been <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/courts\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">jailed <\/a>for serious sexual offences against children in Edinburgh. Brian Stobie, 70, was sentenced to 12 years and nine months for the offences at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday, 30 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It comes after he was <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/courts\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">convicted <\/a>of the offences, which took place over a number of years, at the same court on Wednesday, 3 December, where he also pleaded guilty to indecent communication offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Detective Inspector Steph Garnett said: \u201cStobie\u2019s actions caused immeasurable harm to his young victims. Over several years he deliberately exploited children, and such behaviour is abhorrent in every sense. He will now face the consequences of his despicable actions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We remain committed to ensuring offenders like him are brought to justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cWe know it is difficult to come forward and report sexual crime, but be assured you will be fully supported by our specially trained officers and partner agencies. There is no time bar to reporting, regardless of when it happened, please contact us so we can fully investigate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Join <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DBFongo3zQS6P8RfPA1ryO\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Edinburgh Live&#8217;s Whatsapp Community here <\/strong><\/a><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">and get the latest news sent <\/strong><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">straight to your messages.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Stobie, 70, was sentenced to 12 years and nine months for the offences.Brian Stobie, 70(Image: Police Scotland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,30,1102,4884,530,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-663433","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-edinburgh","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-police-scotland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115811010851875589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663433","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=663433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}