A handyman has been jailed after he sexually harassed two mothers while they were home alone.
Craig Maisey had denied the charges, which were committed while he was carrying out odd jobs for building firm Chap Construction.
However yesterday, the 35-year-old was found guilty of repeatedly making sexual remarks and causing fear and alarm to the women, following a hearing at Aberdeen Sheriff Court.
One complainer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said Maisey had visited her home three or four times between November and December last year.
The 31-year-old said the worker, who was carrying out routine repairs in the area, seemed friendly on their first meeting.
But when asked about their second meeting by fiscal depute Colin Neilson, the mother-of-two said he began asking her more personal questions, adding “there’s friendly and there’s over-friendly.”
The woman said she began to feel uncomfortable when the conversation moved onto Maisey’s relationship.
She said: “He asked if I had a boyfriend, I told him I did. He said he had met his girlfriend when he went dogging with his friend.
“That’s something I didn’t need to know.”
She added that Maisey had alluded to spending time in prison for a crime involving ” a girl”, but did not elaborate further, and that this – together with his “crude and vile” conversation – scared her to the point where she did not want to have a shower while he was still in the flat.
On another occasion the woman said Maisey, who had been working nearby, walked into her flat without permission and sat down in her living room.
The handyman’s solicitor Stuart Beveridge suggested to the complainer that she had “let her imagination run riot” and she was never in any real danger.
He also told the court she had failed to report it to the police and that when she had asked Maisey’s boss if he could be moved she had seemed more concerned about the quality of his work.
Another woman gave evidence at a previous hearing when she said Maisey had propositioned her, told her he had skeleton keys which could unlock any door in the estate and blocked her from leaving her flat.
Maisey was found not guilty of similar offences against two other women.
Sheriff Grant Hutchison sentenced him to 12 months in prison.