An American paedophile who preyed on a vulnerable teenager at a Dundee swimming pool has been thrown out of the UK.
The case of Brian Hohman prompted considerable anger last year when it emerged the US authorities had failed to notify the UK Border Agency that he had been placed on the register of sex offenders in three separate states.
Despite previous convictions for child rape and sex abuse which had earned him a 10-year prison sentence in his homeland, he was free to travel the globe and entered the UK by apparently claiming to be a tourist.
His lawyer told Dundee Sheriff Court that Hohman was a landscape gardener who travelled to other countries over the winter.
Hohman was sentenced to 12 months in prison after admitting trying to persuade a 15-year-old boy to commit an indecent act at Dundee’s Olympia Leisure Centre.
Now it has been confirmed that he has been deported back to America and details of his criminal record will remain on file and be flagged up if he ever tries to return to the UK.
”We will seek to remove all foreign nationals who commit serious offences,” said a UK Border Agency spokeswoman. ”Last year we deported 5,342 foreign national offenders from the UK.”
Dundee East MP Stewart Hosie was one of the prominent critics of the system which had allowed Hohman into the UK in the first place.
”I’m pleased the process has finally worked and that warnings will come in if he tries to come back to Scotland,” he said.