Inverness sex offender sentence deferred

SENTENCE has been deferred yet again on a serial sex offender from Inverness who appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh.

At a previous hearing, John Angus (57) was branded a dangerous man who posed a "significant risk to the public in general and adult females in particular".

Predatory Angus was under surveillance in Inverness when he managed to give police the slip and fled to Aberdeen where he carried out an assault on a 21-year-old woman.

At the High Court in Inverness last year he was found guilty of the assault, and the case was adjourned to the High Court in Edinburgh in December for reports and then further deferred until April.

This hearing was then again deferred until today, and when the case called for sentence for the third time, it was put off until July 15 as Angus’ defence side have yet to decide whether or not they are going to lodge a formal objection to a risk assessment order called for by the court.

Angus had been placed on a Sex Offenders Prevention Order, confining him to Northern Constabulary’s Inverness command area, but gave cops the slip and travelled to Aberdeen where he committed the assault.