A child sex offender who sneaked abroad for a sunshine holiday with a family has been jailed for a year.
Paul Scally was able to spend a week on a foreign holiday despite being recognised pre-flight in the airport by an off-duty police officer. The eagle-eyed specialist officer from the sex offenders unit recognised depraved Scally waiting to board a flight to holiday island Fuertaventura.
The officer reported the sighting of Scally with a mixed-age family group at Edinburgh Airport shortly before the flight departure on 8 September last year. He contacted the sex offender tracking unit but because it was early in the morning the office was unmanned and no-one was able to prevent Scally boarding his flight.
