{"id":664529,"date":"2025-12-31T11:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664529\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:04:13","slug":"man-sentenced-for-serious-sexual-offences-against-children-in-edinburgh-the-nen-north-edinburgh-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664529\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced for serious sexual offences against children in Edinburgh \u2013 The NEN \u2013 North Edinburgh News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nen.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/brian-stobie.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"182\" height=\"182\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/brian-stobie.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-220434\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>A man has been jailed for serious sexual offences against children which took place in Edinburgh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Brian Stobie, 70, was sentenced to 12 years and nine months at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday \u2013 Tuesday, 30 December, 2025. He was convicted at the same court on Wednesday, 3 December, and also pleaded guilty to indecent communication offences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nen.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/High-Court.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/High-Court.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18550\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe remain committed to ensuring offenders like him are brought to justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\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>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>\tPublished by<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1767179053_798_a6d9c98205a3da7d24f25d108fd1a8fe9a85d73dbd7906c4dae7c37f2c3f594a.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-56 photo\" height=\"56\" width=\"56\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been jailed for serious sexual offences against children which took place in Edinburgh. Brian Stobie,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-664529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115813854178619184","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664529","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=664529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}