Creepy Scots driving instructor who preyed on teen girls during lessons dodges jail

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A pervert driving instructor who sexually assaulted teenagers during lessons in his car has dodged a jail sentence. Findlay Munro preyed on young women learning to drive in Edinburgh, touching them and making inappropriate comments.

The 62-year-old appeared at the city’s sheriff court on Tuesday after previously admitting four charges. Munro was given two years supervision with a conduct requirement to undertake “offence-focused work”.He was also put on the sex offenders register for two years.Sheriff Adrian Fraser told Munro the charges were “serious” and involved a “breach of trust” towards the pupils he targeted.But the sheriff said he was taking into account Munro’s “health difficulties” and a report by social workers on how to “address the offending” outside prison.Sheriff Fraser said he was satisfied there was an “alternative to custody”.Munro, of the city’s Baberton area, repeatedly targeted four victims while alone in his car with them before a police investigation landed him in court.A mother previously told the Record how her 17-year-old daughter was sexually assaulted by “scumbag” Munro.

She paid for her daughter to receive weekly two-hour lessons from him when he was an instructor through Red Driving School.She said: “She came back after the first lesson and told me Munro called all his pupils his ‘girlfriends’.

I thought it was bizarre, but my daughter said it was fine, she just wanted to pass her test.“Looking back, she would get really, really anxious before every lesson but I put it down to nerves.“Then another girl said police were speaking to Munro’s pupils and my daughter said some things had happened to her.“I got her to write it down, because it was difficult for her.