A serial sex offender from Burntisland is back behind bars after carrying out a campaign of salacious offending towards authority figures.
Emma McIntyre is already on the sex offenders register after trying to get a man to pleasure her while holding him at knifepoint in an underpass.
She appeared back at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court via a video link from HMP Cornton Vale to admit half a dozen more sexually charged crimes.
The 56-year-old’s offences were carried out towards neighbours, a social worker, police and a prison officer.
None of McIntyre’s victims can be identified for legal reasons.
Sexual assaulted police officer
On June 21 last year – almost five months after being liberated from custody in connection with earlier sex offences – she was offending again.
McIntyre knocked on the door of a neighbour, who saw her wearing an unzipped hoodie with her bare breasts exposed.
She contacted police and told McIntyre to go home.
Later that month, police and a social worker visited McIntyre’s home and encouraged her to speak to a medical professional.
McIntyre told the social worker she would like to touch her and made comments about lifting her clothing.
McIntyre then sexually assaulted a female police officer by touching her over her clothing.
McIntyre was taken to Kirkcaldy police station but before being taken in, she exposed her genitals to another female police officer and made a lewd comment.
Undeterred behind bars
Following this, McIntyre was temporarily remanded at HMP Cornton Vale.
She arrived at the Stirling jail on July 5 and a female prison officer attended her cell.
McIntyre reached out and touched the officer’s hand, commenting on her tattoos.
The prison officer pushed McIntyre away but the offender reached out again and squeezed the officer’s breast, over her clothing.
McIntyre was subsequently granted bail and returned to Burntisland, subject to conditions not to approach or contact the neighbour she had first flashed.
However just after 9am on Halloween last year, McIntyre was walking outside, naked from the waist down, and shouted to the neighbour.
Police instructed McIntyre to go inside and dress and she put on a pair of denim shorts.
No mental disorder defence
In court, McIntyre admitted threatening or abusive behaviour by exposing her naked breasts to the neighbour on June 23 2023.
She also admitted communicating indecently with the social worker and sexually assaulting the police officer at her home on June 29 and communicating indecently and exposing herself at Kirkcaldy police station.
She admitted a fourth offence of sexually assaulting the prison officer and pled guilty to the October 31 bail breach and public indecency.
Solicitor Yvonne McKenna said: “She’s spent quite a considerable period in custody.
“I’ve got a full psychiatric report. There’s no Section 51A (mental disorder) defence.”
Ms McKenna said her client suffered complex childhood trauma and was using crack cocaine.
Sheriff James Willimason placed McIntyre on the sex offenders register again and deferred sentencing until August 26 for reports to be available.
Previous convictions
Last February, McIntyre pled guilty to a string of sex offences.
She admitted she tried to get a man to pleasure her at knifepoint as he walked through a Burntisland underpass.
Two months prior, she walked into a café in the town wearing nothing but a pair of socks and told shocked customers she was “looking to book an orgy”.
Days before that, in a different restaurant, she engaged in a solo sex act in front of a man and child.
On another occasion she repeatedly sexually assaulted a woman by grabbing her breasts over her clothing.
Other offences she admitted included intentionally exposing her genitals on three other occasions and an offence of public indecency by removing her clothing and exposing her breasts in a restaurant.
In connection with all these offences, McIntyre was placed under supervision for 18 months and on the sex offenders register for as long.
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