Former SNP councillor Mark Kerr has been jailed after he assaulted teenagers and tried to rape one boy.
A former SNP councillor who assaulted teenagers and tried to rape one boy has been jailed.
He was found guilty of nine charges involving offences that took place between May 2012 and May 2020 in Lanarkshire. On a different occasion in 2015, the boy was asleep in Kerr’s house when he woke up to the predator trying to rape him. He went on to publicly confront Kerr at knifepoint in the presence of his mother, saying: ‘Tell my mum what you done to me.’One one occasion after explicitly describing sex acts, Kerr said to him: ‘Don’t knock it until you have tried it.’Kerr also molested a boy in a tent on a camping trip in Croy. He was accused of raping a second boy on the same trip but acquitted of this charge.
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