David Hill, then aged 68, formerly of the Station Hotel, Burghead, Moray, was sentenced to two years in prison at Inverness Sheriff Court on Friday, 3 October 2025, after being found guilty of multiple historical sexual offences spanning over 30 years.
The court heard that Hill committed his first offense between November 1991 and November 1992, engaging in lewd, indecent, and libidinous practices towards a female child aged between 12 and 16. On 1 January 2008, Hill committed a second offense of a similar nature against another girl aged between 12 and 16 at a residential address in Elgin. A third charge detailed the sexual assault of a young child under the age of 13 at an address in Burghead between April 2015 and April 2017.
Police Scotland initiated an investigation into Hill following reports from the victims detailing his historical conduct. Officers assembled a comprehensive prosecution file documenting the multi-decade pattern of child exploitation.
Following a trial at Inverness Sheriff Court in September 2025, a jury returned majority guilty verdicts on all three charges against Hill.
On 3 October 2025, the presiding sheriff sentenced Hill to two years’ imprisonment. In addition to his custodial sentence, the court imposed three-year non-harassment orders prohibiting Hill from attempting any contact with his victims and placed him on the sex offenders register for a period of ten years.
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