Delay in sentencing Readings

A FORMER Shetland resident who was involved in attempts to set up an independent ambulance service in the isles, must wait to hear his fate after being found guilty of abusing two young children.

Christopher Readings, was due to be sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh on Friday but judge Lord Brodie was told that the 44 year old had changed lawyers and wanted more time for them to prepare.

The former soldier was found guilty after a trial of forcing a 12-year-old girl to perform indecent acts while he watched – using a web camera. He was also convicted of attempting to rape the girl and committing a serious sex assault. Readings was also found guilty of sodomising a 13-year old boy and making him perform other sex acts.

The sex offences were committed at addresses in Shetland between May 2008 and January last year.

Readings – who remains in custody pending sentence – has since moved to a caravan park in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire.

Readings is due to appear before Lord Brodie again on 25 February.