{"id":677215,"date":"2026-01-06T07:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677215\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T07:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:42:15","slug":"convicted-rapist-who-abused-girl-from-age-five-dies-behind-bars-at-barlinnie-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677215\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted rapist who abused girl from age five dies behind bars at Barlinnie prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A convicted rapist, who was jailed for abusing a girl from the age of five, has died behind bars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brian Keenan preyed on the child between 2004 and 2021 at addresses in a South Lanarkshire town.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign of abuse ended after the woman was attacked and raped. Keenan was jailed for ten years after he was convicted at the High Court in Edinburgh last September.<\/p>\n<p>Keenan had denied a series of charges during an earlier trial but was convicted of three offences \u2013 one of indecent conduct towards a child and two of sexual assault and rape.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old was placed on the sex offenders\u2019 register indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>He died on December 28 whilst serving time at HMP Barlinnie.<\/p>\n<p>A Fatal Accident Inquiry will take place following the death.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758059248_2_whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A convicted rapist, who was jailed for abusing a girl from the age of five, has died behind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-677215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115847033467772122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677215","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=677215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}