Chisom Umejiaku
On Monday, 18 August 2025, a 34-year-old man from Kirkcaldy, Fife, was sentenced to ten years in prison at the High Court in Edinburgh after being convicted of raping and abusing two teenage girls.
Michael McRobie was found guilty on 12 charges, including six counts of rape, following evidence that he subjected his victims to sustained assaults and sexual exploitation.
One of the girls was just 13 when the abuse began, while the other was 16. The court heard he used violence during the attacks, including striking one victim with a whip.
Passing sentence, Judge Michael O’Grady KC described McRobie’s conduct as “the most appalling catalogue of offences” and branded him a predator with a “sinister, compulsive and deeply dangerous interest in children and adolescent girls.”
The judge told him: “It is clear that when you behaved as you did, you were neither stupid nor unthinking nor caught up in the moment. What you were doing was the product of cunning and manipulation and forethought.”
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He said the two teenagers had been deliberately targeted because of their vulnerability, adding: “The damage you have done to these young women is incalculable and I have no doubt its shadow will hang over them for the foreseeable future, perhaps forever.”
McRobie was also placed indefinitely on the sex offenders register and made subject to non-harassment orders.
In addition to the prison term, he will spend four years under supervision after release, with the risk of being returned to custody if he breaches licence conditions.