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Article: Child rapist launches life sentence appeal
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- April 15, 2008
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A MEMBER of Edinburgh's worst ever paedophile ring has launched
an appeal against his life sentence for raping two young girls.
One-legged Morris Petch was ordered to serve a minimum of 12
years after a judge branded him a "serious risk to the public".
The 50-year-old was convicted of raping two sisters who suffered
12 years of abuse at the hands of a group of paedophiles - including
their own mother.
Lawyers for Petch are due to appear at the Criminal Appeal Court
in Edinburgh tomorrow to argue that the length of his ...