A man who was locked up for a “terrifying and degrading” sexual assault on a teenage girl faces being sent back to jail for failing to comply with strict sex offender regulations.
Calum Cuthill was convicted of carrying out a brutal attack at Dundee University student residences in November 2007.
The High Court in Dundee heard that Cuthill, now 26, prevented his 18-year-old victim from leaving a flat in the city and threatened her with violence before sexually assaulting her and leaving her injured.
Cuthill was in the dock at Perth Sheriff Court on Thursday, where he was warned he could be locked up again after he admitted failing to tell police about a change of his home address.
Depute fiscal Stuart Richardson told the court that police went to what they believed to be Cuthill’s address on Perth’s High Street to make sure he was still there but there was no answer.
The letting agent for the property told officers that Cuthill had moved into new accommodation at nearby Tay Street.
Sheriff Fiona Tait was told that Cuthill had recently changed jobs and had simply forgotten to tell police about his move.
The court heard that Cuthill, who now works as a landscape gardener, has since moved to a new property on Perth’s New Row.
Deferring sentence for background reports, the sheriff told Cuthill: “The court has to take a serious view of matters like these and I don’t think a fine would be appropriate in this case.”
During Cuthill’s trial in 2009, jurors heard that he had been a friend of his victim before the attack.
Advocate depute Brian McConnachie said that, as a result of the assault, the girl gave up her university course.