A predator who subjected two vulnerable girls to repeated sexual and physical abuse was jailed for seven years on Friday.
A court heard that Robert Maiden used grooming, manipulation and violence as he moved on from one child to the other in Edinburgh in crimes committed over a six year period. .
A judge told Maiden at the High Court in Edinburgh: "I recognise at the age of 60 you are in effect a first offender." But Lord Beckett told him that he had engaged in a course of violent and sexual conduct against vulnerable youngsters.
