A shamed former SNP councillor who groomed and abused a string of teenage boys has been jailed for six years.
However, he went on to grope the final victim atKerr denied the accusations and insisted he had been the target of a vendetta, which saw him forced out of his home of 32 years.The crimes were the attempted rape as well as sex offences against five other male victims.
The victim's mother had also turned up and she witnessed her son yelling:"Tell my mum what you done to me."Kerr tormented another boy from around 2012. In 2014, Kerr targeted another of the teenagers by groping him and sending him sexually graphic messages online. Kerr gave evidence during the trial and claimed he had been targeted after he had put a video of boys playing at a local disused quarry on his councillor Facebook page.Kerr sobbed as he told how he had been filmed being forced out of his home by locals and branded the"local nonce".
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