A Falklands veteran who invited girls aged 13 and 14 for a sleepover, then plied them with alcohol and sexually assaulted them, has avoided a jail term.
Former Navy seaman Kevin Duncan’s lawyer said post-traumatic stress disorder – a result of “what he had seen in the Falklands” – had contributed to feelings of loneliness and isolation and that this had led to the offence.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard Duncan, 55, was contacted by the 13-year-old daughter of a woman he knew, who sent him a text saying she had not seen him for some time.
He then invited her to come to his house for some “fun”.
Depute fiscal Charmaine Gilmartin told the court the girl agreed to come over with a 14-year-old friend.
She said: “The accused offered them alcohol and they took it.
“They went to the bathroom at one point to discuss not feeling comfortable there and said they were not going to stay over.
“As the 14-year-old girl walked down the stairs the accused tried to grab her bottom. The 13-year-old then walked in and he grabbed her bottom.
“The complainers told the accused they were leaving.”
Duncan, of Logie Gardens, Dundee, admitted two charges of sexual assault and one under the Sexual Offences Scotland Act.
Sheriff Alastair Brown imposed a community payback order with two years of supervision and an order to take part in a sex offenders treatment programme.
He also placed Duncan on a restriction of liberty order confining him to his home address from 7pm-7am for four months.
