Robert McGregor, of Inverness, who was jailed in 2017 for violently raping three young boys and distributing the footage online, has been arrested in Nairn and recalled to prison after violating the terms of his licence.
The original prosecution arose after Police Scotland officers executed a search warrant at McGregor’s residence in Inverness, seizing multiple electronic devices and data storage drives containing illicit images of children.
Specialist investigators conducted forensic analysis of the files, successfully identifying three child victims from the recovered material.
The victims were young boys aged three, six, and 12.
The evidence established that McGregor had filmed himself carrying out violent sexual assaults and rapes against the children, subsequently uploading the footage to the internet for wider distribution.
McGregor appeared before the High Court of Justiciary in 2017 for sentencing.
The presiding judge, Lady Carmichael, addressed the severity of the crimes, stating on the record that she would have sentenced McGregor to 15 years’ imprisonment had he not entered early guilty pleas.
Lady Carmichael further determined that the legal criteria required to impose an Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR)—a sentence equivalent to an indeterminate prison term in Scotland—had not been met.
Consequently, McGregor was handed a standard determinate sentence of 10 years.
In May of this year, having reached the statutory threshold for release under licence supervision, McGregor was discharged from prison custody and accommodated in the Scottish Highlands.
However, his presence generated intense community concern, leading to repeated relocations between different Highland towns as local residents discovered where public protection agencies had housed him.
The situation escalated on Friday when police officers located and arrested McGregor in the town of Nairn after establishing that he had breached the strict conditions attached to his release licence.
Release Calculation: Under Scottish sentencing legislation governing determinate prison sentences, prisoners released on licence remain subject to statutory supervision and mandatory conditions until the full expiration date of their original term. Following his breach, McGregor’s licence was immediately revoked, and he was returned to prison custody to serve the remainder of his 10-year sentence behind bars.
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