Care Home In Row After ‘Insane’ Man Carried Out Sex Attacks

A man carried out two serious sex attacks on women only months after he was at the centre of a complaint about sexually assaulting a vulnerable female resident of a care home.

The Herald has previously revealed how Camphill Blair Drummond, a home for adults with learning difficulties in Stirlingshire, failed to stop the incident and then took three days to inform police.

Complaints by the woman’s mother have been upheld by the Care Commission, but it emerged yesterday that the 21-year-old man was allowed to leave the home and move back to Glasgow, where he stalked one woman and assaulted another with intent to rape her just four months later.

Concerns over the case were raised last night by the mother and politicians.

The man, who is not being identified, was asked to leave Camphill Blair Drummond after the incident in June 2006. The procurator-fiscal decided there was not enough evidence for a prosecution.

He moved to his parents’ home in Glasgow, with a file passed to the city’s social work department.

Four months later, he followed a 28-year-old woman along Pollokshaws Road until she escaped by hailing a taxi. On November 8, he dragged a 32-year-old woman into Queens Park and assaulted her with intent to rape.

At Glasgow Sheriff Court, it was accepted he was insane and unfit to plead before proceedings began, but a sheriff has ruled he was responsible for the offences. He is now under 24-hour supervision as a bail condition until the case is disposed of later this year.

The mother of the woman at Camphill said after yesterday’s decision: “They were aware, when he left Camphill Blair Drummond, that he was sexually deviant but they just wanted rid of him. These women were put through their ordeals because the system failed to ensure he was not a danger.”

Dumbarton MSP Jackie Baillie, in whose constituency the family of the woman live, said: “It makes me wonder about the failings of different agencies. The young man has been let down by Camphill.”

Helen Munro, Camphill chairwoman, said: “He left us in June 2006, and since then we have had no dealings with the man. We wrote to Glasgow social work, outlining our concerns and the allegations made against him.”

Glasgow City Council said at the time of the offences it was helping to find the man supported accommodation.