A sex predator who raped an underage teenage girl after claiming she made sexual advances to him when she was sleepwalking was jailed for more than 10 years today (Thursday, November 9).

Allen Morrison lied to the victim that she had taken off her clothes and made sexual remarks and later told her he filmed her.

He said he did this to protect himself and the girl believed that he meant to show the videos to the police.

He told her that she might have a disorder called sexsomnia and that he could help her overcome it.

Morrison appeared at court from custody, having previously pled guilty to two charges of rape. He was remanded by Judge Lord Boyd at the High Court in Glasgow early last month and sentence had been deferred for reports.


Advocate depute Kath Harper said today: "The accused also made her watch pornographic videos. He told her that her sleep walking would get worse if she didn't do this."

Morrison got the girl to perform sex acts on him claiming she needed to do them to help her stop abusing him and went on to have sex with her as his offending escalated .

Morrison, 54, also began abusing a second girl when she was underage and went on to rape her.

But his first victim found out about it and decided to speak up about the ordeal she was subjected to by the offender. Police were contacted and Morrison was detained.

Police recovered 92 images of child sexual exploitation featuring the two girls he subjected to a catalogue of abuse.

Morrison, a former cook at Cumnerhall care home in Ayr, began the abuse after his cancer stricken wife was taken into hospital prior to her death.

He earlier admitted assaulting one girl from the age of 14 and raping her between March 2013 and August 2017.

Morrison, a prisoner in Glasgow's Barlinnie jail, also pled guilty to assaulting and raping the second girl from the age of 15 between October 2017 and June this year. Both offences were committed at his home in Ardrossan. 

A judge told Morrison at the High Court in Edinburgh: "This was a sustained course of evil and criminal conduct."

Lord Boyd of Duncansby said: "No one who heard the narrative of your offences could have failed to have been struck by the cruelty. I use that word quite deliberately."

The judge said he had read victim impact statements prepared in the case and said the victims "have been substantially effected in ways that will in all probability stay with them for the rest of their lives".

He told Morrison that he would be jailed for a total of 10 years and eight months and would be on the sex offenders' register indefinitely.

Morrison's defence counsel Simon Gilbride told the court: "The charges, as he himself has acknowledged, are awful and first and foremost he wishes to apologise to the victims of his appalling behaviour."

He said the offences were committed by the first offender against the background of the illness and death of Morrison's wife and his drinking. 

"He has expressed how deeply ashamed and how remorseful he is for what he had done," said Mr Gilbride.