SNP ‘soft-touch’ justice beneath the highlight but once more after paedophile, 26, posed as a teenage boy to blackmail and rape woman, 13, whereas being monitored by a specialist unit

A intercourse offender pretended to be a teenage boy to blackmail and rape a 13-year-old woman whereas he was being monitored by a specialist unit.

Joshua Pemberton, 26, struck in January 2022, having earlier served time in jail for sexual offences.

He had initially contacted the sufferer on social media whereas claiming to be 14.

Pemberton went on to rape the kid at a lodge in Livingston, West Lothian, after threatening to show intimate pictures of {the teenager} that he had pestered her for.

Three different younger ladies had been victims of the predator – two he had underage intercourse with and one other he hounded for photos.

A choose heard Pemberton was being monitored by the Highland and Islands intercourse offender policing unit in his dwelling city of Inverness.

He had been classed as a ‘excessive threat’ when he was free of jail in 2020. Pemberton acquired jail phrases in 2018 and 2019 for offences towards 5 kids.

He’s now again behind bars after he pleaded responsible to a complete of 17 fees on the Excessive Court docket in Glasgow. Prosecutor Chris Jones stated: ‘He used a false image to misrepresent his look to her.’

They messaged on Snapchat and Pemberton went on to ‘repeatedly ask’ for nude photos. The woman ‘ultimately relented’.

Pemberton later recommended assembly in Livingston the place Mr Jones stated: ‘She realised he had been utilizing a faux image and that he was older.’

Pemberton warned her if she didn’t go to a lodge for intercourse he would ship intimate pictures of her ‘to individuals she knew’.

He raped the crying woman within the lodge room.

The court docket heard Pemberton additionally had intercourse with two ladies aged 14 and 15 after he ‘deceived them into considering he was youthful than he was’.

A fourth woman – aged 13 – was preyed upon for photos.

Pemberton’s lawyer Shahid Latif stated: ‘He apologises for the harm that he has triggered.’

Girl Stacey remanded him in custody and deferred sentencing till subsequent month.

Scottish Tory deputy justice spokesman Sharon Dowey stated: ‘It’s disgraceful this offender was capable of perform extra brutal crimes.’

A police spokesman stated: ‘We are able to by no means remove threat totally, however sexual re-offending charges of registered intercourse offenders stay very low.’