The sentence of Sean Hogg, who was spared jail after being convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl, should be appealed, Scotland’s Lord Advocate has said.
Hogg was 17 when he attacked the schoolgirl at Dalkeith Country Park in Midlothian on various occasions between March and June 2018.
Earlier this month, at the High Court in Glasgow, Hogg, now 21, was handed a community payback order with 270 hours of unpaid work.
It followed new guidelines which came into effect in Scotland in January 2022 for sentencing under-25s.
The Scottish Sentencing Council recommended a more “individualistic approach” to take account of the perpetrator’s life experiences.
