Overview

• Graham, 43, was sentenced to 27 months at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court and placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.
• He was convicted by a majority verdict in July after denying the charge, with offending between February and August 2023 in Fife and Edinburgh shortly after the girl’s 15th birthday.
• Sheriff Robert More described an escalating and brazen course of sexual behaviour, citing evidence of planning to avoid detection and disregard of family warnings.
• Police Scotland called him a manipulative individual who groomed and abused a teenage victim, and the Procurator Fiscal said he exploited an unbalanced power dynamic.
• Fife Council confirmed his disqualification and said a by-election will follow in Ward 22, while police previously dealt with a large protest at his home that led to three arrests.