A rapist is set to spend "years and years" in jail after being convicted of a horrific series of sex attacks. Andrew Lingardfaces a lengthy custodial sentence after being convicted of sexually abusing two 12-year-old schoolgirls and raping their sleeping sister.
He had denied the historic sexual offences, claiming he suffered from a condition called 'sexsomnia' – or 'sleep sex' – which makes sufferers unaware of what they do while they are asleep.
However, a jury at the High Court in Livingston rejected the bizarre defence and convicted Lingard of three serious sexual offences, described by the presiding judge as “grave” crimes. Lingard, who broke down in tears in the dock as the guilty verdicts were read out, was told by judge Michael O’Grady that he had betrayed his three victims, saying: “They trusted you.”
