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Dunfermline man jailed for public sexual assault

Dunfermline Sheriff Court.
Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

A 55-year-old Fife man has been jailed after being convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in Dunfermline.

Hugh Devaney was found guilty by a jury of kissing and leaning over his victim and placing his hand inside her lower clothing and touching her, at an address in the city in May 2020.

This followed a trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court last month.

Devaney admitted a second charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner on the same date by making sexually inappropriate comments and gestures and repeatedly making abusive remarks towards two police constables.

Defence lawyer Alexander Flett said the consumption of alcohol was behind the offending.

The solicitor said Devaney, of Burt Street in Wellwood, maintains his denial of the circumstances of the offence.

Sentencing

Sheriff Charles Macnair told Devaney: “You assaulted the complainer in this case in a sexual manner in public.

“She repeatedly said ‘no’ and was heard to say ‘no’ by witnesses but you carried on regardless.”

Sheriff Macnair jailed Devaney for 18 months for the sexual assault and sentenced him to a further 135 days for the threatening or abusive behaviour.

These sentences will run consecutively to one other.

Devaney was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years.

He will also be subject to a nine-month licence upon release at the end of his prison sentence.