‘Unduly lenient’ sentence of rapist Sean Hogg to be appealed

Sean Hogg, from South Lanarkshire, was given community sentence after raping 13-year-old when he was 17

A man who was given a 270-hour community payback sentence for raping a 13-year-old girl in a park is to have his sentence appealed on the grounds it was “unduly lenient”, Scotland’s lord advocate has decided.

There was widespread outrage expressed by campaigners and politicians when Sean Hogg was not given a jail sentence when he appeared at the high court in Glasgow earlier this month.