An artist who forced a girl to kill her pet gerbil with an axe has been jailed over a horrific catalogue of sexual, physical and mental abuse. Chris Maginn, a sculptor who also spent years working on community projects, tormented children and animals. A court heard he kicked pet cats, threw a kitten at a door and drove nails into a goat's head.
He also sexually abused a boy and a girl and mistreated them and another girl. He abused them mentally, leaving them scared, alarmed and anxious.
Maginn, 76, denied doing anything wrong, forcing his victims, who are now adults, to give evidence against him in a trial at Dumbarton Sheriff Court. And earlier this month he was jailed for three years for the offences after a jury convicted him of five charges spanning 1981 to 1987.
