A sex offender with an “arrogant and domineering” attitude towards women has avoided jail.
Over a two-year period, Peter Reid repeatedly acted in a threatening and abusive manner towards two teenagers he had been in a relationship with.
He also had sex with a 15-year-old he met on Tinder – despite being aware of her age.
During a trial at Aberdeen Sheriff Court in February, jurors heard Reid locked one of his victims outside in his front garden while she was only in her underwear.
Despite her screams the 21-year-old refused to let her back inside. And when she attempted to get back inside he slammed her fingers in the door.
The court heard on another occasion he pulled the same girl to the floor by her hair and kicked her on the body.
Reid was also convicted of banging another teen’s head against the floor. He also repeatedly made abusive comments towards her throughout the period of their relationship.
Yesterday the former Robert Gordon University student appeared back in the dock to be sentenced, after a jury found him guilty of two breach of the peace charges as well as having sex with a minor.
Sheriff Annella Cowan placed him on the sex offenders’ register for three years and placed him under supervision for the same period of time.
He was also ordered to take part in the Caledonian Project – for domestic offenders – and the Moving Forward Making Changes Project, for sex offenders.
Representing the first offender, advocate David Moggach said his client still did not accept his guilt.
He said: “He does not accept carrying out the actions he has been convicted of. After having discussions with him he does accept why and how the jury were able to arrive at the convictions. He is disgruntled that they did not accept his denials but he does accept why they can arrive at the verdict.”
The court heard that Reid has not worked since he was attacked in a nightclub in 2014 where part of his ear was bitten off.
As a result, Mr Moggach said he would not be able to pay a fine and insisted he did not think Reid’s offences were serious enough to be placed on any rehabilitation programmes.
However, Sheriff Cowan said she “did not find herself in agreement” with this and said: “You have an arrogant and domineering attitude towards women.
“You are an intelligent young man with Highers in psychology, sociology and communication. These did not do you any good in these circumstances.”
The sheriff said the jury also “clearly decided” Reid was aware his child victim was under the legal age of consent.
Reid will also have to complete 100 hours of unpaid work within the community in the next 12 months.
At a previous hearing, a charge of stalking against Reid was dropped and amended to two charges of breaching the peace.
Several other allegations made in the indictments, and reported previously, were also dropped.
These were repeatedly swearing at a woman, threatening to kill her and put her body in a school bin, and denying access to her family, pushing another woman into a hot bath, and denying her access to food and refusing to allow her to use the toilet, parking outside her work and repeatedly punching her in the face, sending sexual images by text or social media to a woman and a child and sending a series of explicit messages by text and social media to a child.
