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National
Gordon Currie

Bingo hall worker placed on Sex Offenders Register after groping two women

A bingo hall worker who groped two ladies has been ordered to carry out 200 hours unpaid community work.

Chef and body artist Jonathan McKinlay was found guilty of sexually assaulting the women and has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register.

McKinlay groped the women during separate incidents at a bingo hall and at a nightclub in Dundee between December 2018 and May 2019.

After being found guilty at the end of his trial at Dundee Sheriff Court, McKinlay said: “But I didn’t do any of this.”

One of his victims told the trial that she had been left “traumatised” by the incident and had later reported it to the police.

The 41-year-old had claimed the women were conspiring against him because he told one of them she was lazy.

However, Sheriff George Way rejected McKinlay’s version of events and found him guilty of three charges.

McKinlay, of Dundee, was found guilty of sexually assaulting one woman by touching her leg and thigh at Rewind nightclub in December 2018.

He was also found guilty of sexually assaulting a second woman at Buzz Bingo between April 1 and  May 13, 2019, by touching her breast.

And he was found guilty of grabbing her bottom and pulling her towards him so his groin was touching her on May 10 last year.

His solicitor told the court that McKinlay was in a relationship but it had been put on hold during court proceedings.

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