A high risk sex offender was jailed for 10 years today after raping a schoolgirl and trying to rape another victim.
Derek Gall, 36, preyed on children during an eight-year catalogue of abuse and plied one girl with drink before raping the 13-year-old.
A judge told Gall at the High Court in Edinburgh: “You were found guilty of a substantial number of serious offences over a lengthy period of time.”
Lord Bannatyne said he believed that Gall’s offending had been correctly characterised as “a pattern of sexually abusive behaviour over a substantial length of time”.
The judge pointed out that Gall, formerly of Brougham Gardens, Dundee, had also been assessed as posing a high risk of sexual offending.
Lord Bannatyne ordered that he be kept under supervision for a further period of five years.
The judge told Gall that he would be placed on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.
Gall had originally faced a total of 23 charges but was convicted of eight offences following an earlier trial. He had denied the charges.
He indecently assaulted and tried to rape one girl at houses in Dundee, Broughty Ferry and Forfar. The abuse began in 2006 when she was aged eight and during attacks he restrained the child and held her down.
Gall raped a girl at a house in Forfar after supplying her with drink and while she was heavily under the influence of alcohol forced her to carry out a sex act. He also had underage sex with the girl.
Defence counsel Edward Targowski QC said: “As far as mitigation is concerned there is very little I can say in relation to the charges, given his position at trial.”
The defence counsel urged Lord Bannatyne to be “as lenient as possible” with his client.
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