{"id":693348,"date":"2026-01-13T15:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693348\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:01:10","slug":"rapist-escapes-on-way-to-edinburgh-high-court-sentencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693348\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapist escapes on way to Edinburgh High Court sentencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Aaron Strachan, 21, who held a teenage girl at knifepoint before raping her, was due to appear at Edinburgh&#8217;s High Court this morning at around 11.15am.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Strachan evaded external agency officers escorting him and was reportedly seen running through crowds on the Royal Mile. Police later apprehended him following a manhunt.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25761946.body-found-search-missing-man-last-seen-month-ago\/?ref=ed_latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Body found in search for missing man last seen more than a month ago<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/police-scotland\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Scotland<\/a> spokesperson said: \u201cAround 11.15am on Tuesday, 13 January, we were made aware of a man escaping from custody at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cOfficers attended and the 21-year-old man was traced nearby.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/scottish-prison-service\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scottish Prison Service<\/a> spokesperson also confirmed the incident, stating: \u201cWe can confirm an individual escaped while under GEOAmey escort this morning, and we are working with Police Scotland to return him to custody.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Strachan&#8217;s sentencing has been postponed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Strachan, 21, who held a teenage girl at knifepoint before raping her, was due to appear at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-693348","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\/115888395573372787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693348","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=693348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}