A former Scots lawyer has failed in his bid to have some of his historic sex crimes quashed. The ex-prosecutor and and criminal defence counsel, John Watt, lost his appeal at the Criminal Appeal Court last month.
The Scottish Courts and Tribunals website published their judgement summary today, February 3, and said there had been no miscarriage of justice in Watt’s conviction for historical rape and sexual abuse.
He was jailed for 10 years last summer for sexually abusing four young children between 1973 and 1987 at houses in Edinburgh. He was granted leave to appeal on two charges against one victim - one charge of rape and the other of lewd, libidinous and indecent practices
