A convicted sex offender has been expelled from a course at Dundee & Angus College which he secured without revealing his criminal record.
Christopher Doyle was able to mingle with 16-year-old girl students despite being on the sex offenders register and banned from having unsupervised contact with teenagers under the age of 17.
His presence at the Gardyne campus in Dundee, where he had enrolled on a computer course, came to the attention of his victim’s family. They were horrified that he could come into contact with teenage girls and made an official complaint.
Doyle was convicted of the offence in 2012.
A college spokesman said: “We can confirm that Christopher Doyle has been attending classes at D&A College.
“We were unaware of the court order but when it was brought to our attention we took immediate action to comply with it and Doyle is no longer attending classes.”
Doyle was working as a taxi driver when he sexually assaulted a young woman at a village in Perthshire.
He had picked her up in Dundee and she asked to be dropped off at a bus stop because she was “really skint”.
Doyle said he had given “freebies” before, but she rejected his suggestion to give him sexual favours.
He said he would take her home for “a tenner and a snog”, before driving past the bus stop and pulling over at a secluded spot.
The young woman paid the taxi fare but Doyle switched off the interior light and sexually assaulted her.
When she arrived home she was hysterical and her parents contacted the police, who recovered a trace of Doyle’s DNA.
It is understood Doyle, who when convicted was 44 and lived at Wiston Place, Dundee, enrolled on the computer course without telling his case officer and the course did not require applicants to disclose any criminal past.
The management of sex offenders in the community is a criminal justice role shared by the police and the local authority.
Both Police Scotland’s Tayside division and Dundee City Council said they do not comment on individual cases.