Bailed serial sex offender jailed

Scott was detained for six months after appearing at a Perth court

A sex offender struck again just days after being bailed by High Court judges despite warnings he was dangerous, a court has heard.

Tarot Scott, 31, from Perth targeted a female traffic warden and carried out a sex act after being freed by the court.

Scott had been granted bail despite the Crown warning that he posed a danger to the public.

He was allowed back onto the streets despite having carried out three similar offences two months previously.

In August last year, the Crown warned that Scott, who was known to follow lone females, was showing an escalating pattern of offending behaviour.

It is clear you are not a well person and it seems appropriate to impose a compulsion order to hospital Sheriff Margaret Gimblett

He appeared at Perth Sheriff Court after stalking three women in the area between 5 July and 13 August.

During the hearing the fiscal depute warned he was a danger to women and children.

At the time, Sheriff Robert Brodie granted bail to Scott.

The fiscal immediately lodged a Crown appeal and the accused was remanded for three days.

Following the three-day period of remand, Scott was again granted bail by judges at the Court of Appeal.

On 20 September he carried out another offence.

Identical offence

At Perth Sheriff Court on Tuesday, Scott was jailed for at least six months on a compulsory hospital order.

He admitted breaching the peace on Norrie Miller Walk in Perth on 5 July by committing a sexual act in the presence of a female.

He also admitted breaching the peace on 6 August by following a woman through several streets in Perth.

On 13 August - again at Norrie Miller Walk - he broke the peace by again committing a sexual act in front of a woman who was on her own.

Finally, he admitted that on 20 September he committed an identical offence in Nelson Street, Perth, while he was out on High Court bail.

A number of other charges, including hiding in bushes to stare at women, taking pictures of them, and following children were dropped by the Crown.

Sheriff Margaret Gimblett said: "It is clear you are not a well person and it seems appropriate to impose a compulsion order to hospital."

The order will initially run for six months and Scott was placed on the Sex Offenders Register for seven years.