A former Dundee mechanic sexually assaulted two women he met at his garage.
George MacNeil, who formerly ran George’s Autos on Clepington Road was today placed on the Sex Offenders Register after admitting the offences.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard MacNeil, 59, touched the women’s inner thighs and tried to kiss one of them.
Fiscal depute Trina Sinclair said MacNeil’s first victim brought her car to the garage several times over two months.
On her final visit, MacNeil asked if he could drive her car to Tayport to see another car he had to fix.
The fiscal said: “She felt the accused was a bit of a creep, but felt obliged to help him. They crossed the Tay Road Bridge and as they drove along the Tayport-Newport road, the accused pulled into a layby. He leaned towards the woman and grabbed hold of her head and pulled her face towards him.
“She turned to her left. He then rubbed the top of her right thigh over her jeans.”
On the return journey, MacNeil turned into an unknown area near Constitution Road and pulled over.
The fiscal added: “He leaned across and put his hands on either side of her head, leaned in and put his left hand on the top of her thigh and stroked her inner thigh. She moved away and he drove back to his garage.”
On a second occasion, MacNeil sexually assaulted another female who he had offered a lift home from his garage.
He told her she was attractive before touching her thigh and stroking her inner thigh, placing her in a state of “shock and alarm”.
Solicitor Ann Duffy, defending, said: “As a consequence of these offences his business is in ruins and he has had to pack up and leave Dundee.”
MacNeil, of Achingale Place, Watten, Wick, admitted two charges of sexual assault on two women.
The first offence took place on November 2014, on Tayport-Newport road, while within a car, and the second offence took place on a date in October last year, on Clepington Road, Pitkerro Road and Drumgeith Road, again while within a vehicle.
Sheriff Tom Hughes said: “Your behaviour is totally and utterly unacceptable.”
MacNeil was placed on the Sex Offenders Register for three years and placed under three years’ supervision with a rehabilitation programme requirement.
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