A COWDENBEATH man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping two under-age girls young enough to be his granddaughters.
David Ferguson was sentenced at Aberdeen High Court this morning after being found guilty of abusing the children for almost 12 years.
The 60-year-old – who never married – took advantage of the innocent schoolgirls when they visited him to borrow videos.
Ferguson, of Blamey Crescent, Cowdenbeath, denied all the charges and was earlier cleared of a further rape after the Crown withdrew the allegation.
Last month, a jury returned majority verdicts finding Ferguson guilty of two rapes and two indecent assaults on girls under 16, and one charge of lewd and libidinous practices towards a child aged between 7 and 11 years.
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