Vile Scots paedophiles exchanged sick letters discussing murder of children
14.10.2022 - 18:11
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Two convicted paedophiles who exchanged sick letters from behind bars discussing how they could rape and murder children received life sentences today.
Paul Hannah, 37, and Robert Aitman, 35, had previously been cellmates before ending up in separate prisons. The duo were subject to strict Sexual Offences Prevention Orders (SOPO) due to earlier crimes.
But, they flouted it by repeatedly secretly writing to one another during almost seven months in 2020. Some of what was penned - much too graphic to explain in detail - was read during a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow.
It included Hannah discussing harming a child and then arranging to "snuff a kid" out and "disposing" of the body. He also urged Aitman to try and convince a judge his fellow pervert was "not a danger".
Aitman meantime spoke of "going online to to talk with people with kids" and how he missed being Hannah's "co-pilot".
The pair both pled guilty to breaching the SOPO the terms of which included an order not to contact other sex offenders.
Judge Lord Beckett put the pair on an order for lifelong restriction at Friday's sentencing. Hannah was ordered to carry out a punishment period behind bars of at least 18 months while Aitman received 20 months.
The judge earlier heard how Hannah claimed the first covid lockdown had left him feeling "isolated" and that was why he wrote the letters to Aitman.
Hannah had orginally been jailed in 2017 for having indecent images of children. He was the hit with the SOPO a year later.
Aitman - also known as McNab - was given the same order in 2020. He also had convictions for child porn and other related offences, which had seen him locked up.
Hannah latterly ended up in Glasgow's Barlinnie prison with Aitman in Low Moss in