Appeal over ‘unduly lenient’ community sentence for man who raped girl, 13

Decision welcomed by victim after judge decided not to jail Sean Hogg from South Lanarkshire for the offence

A man who was given a 270-hour community payback sentence for raping a 13-year-old girl in a park is to have his sentence appealed on the grounds it was unduly lenient", Scotland's lord advocate has decided.

There was widespread outrage expressed by campaigners and politicians when Sean Hogg was not given a jail sentence when he appeared at the high court in Glasgow earlier this month.