We've waited 40 years to see pervert who raped us face justice

Twisted children's care home worker locked up for a decade, Former vulnerable pupils tell of abuse at his hands

- MARCELLA MEGA

VICTIMS of a care worker who abused them more than 40 years ago have finally seen justice with the rapist jailed.

William Brydson, 78, was convicted on 12 charges against nine children, including repeatedly raping two girls.

The former Army corporal worked at Woodlands School in Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, from around 1979 and throughout the 80s.

Three of his victims were at the High Court in Edinburgh to see him jailed for 10 years and have bravely spoken out on their long fight for justice.

Judge Lady Poole branded Brydson's behaviour "an appalling breach of trust" and said two victims were children when he began raping them.

She added: "They were scared of the violence you might inflict on them." Brydson, originally from Nairn, had been jailed in 2003 for two years for 12 physical assaults on children as young as nine at the school, which cared for children deemed difficult to manage.

At a second trial at the end of last year, he faced further charges of cruelty, which included forcing a boy's face into his urine-soaked bed and shutting a boy naked in a cellar.

Brydson also pushed the second boy's face into his food and forced him to eat until he was sick and then to eat the vomit. Two boys were also victims of indecent assault by Brydson.

One female victim was preyed on from the age of 15 and was raped at the school and in a nearby woodland.

A second girl was molested and raped by him at the school and in a car.

Brydson was also convicted of a number of indecent assaults.