A Moray pensioner who sent a filthy text to a married woman and then begged her to delete the explicit message has been placed on the sex offenders register.
Raymond Grant, 75, told the acquaintance he was having “bad thoughts” about her on March 23 this year.
When she innocently asked why, Grant texted back with a suggestive comment concerning a sex act.
The pensioner then begged the woman to delete the message and repeatedly apologised, Elgin Sheriff Court was told.
In one of the messages that followed the explicit text, Fiscal depute Naomi Duffy-Welsh said Grant had even acknowledged that he “shouldn’t have sent it”.
‘I had bad thoughts about you’
She explained that the accused had met the woman outdoors at around 3.55pm on March 23.
Later that afternoon, Grant messaged her, saying: “To be totally honest with you, I had bad thoughts about you, sorry.”
The fiscal told the court that the woman felt “uneasy about what could come next, so asked her husband if she should reply”.
They both decided it might be perfectly innocent.
The woman then texted back: “Oh, in what way?” to which Grant first asked: “Would you delete it immediately if I send it?”
When the woman said “Okay” he then described a sex act he would like to carry out on her.
A message followed and stated: “Sorry – totally honest. Sorry. Know I’m bad”.
And another read: “Did you delete as asked? Please? Know I shouldn’t have sent it. I am sorry”.
After getting the silent treatment, Grant sent another text that read: “Say something…I know you are angry with me”.
Blocked after calling victim
When he tried to call her, the married woman then blocked him and police were called and shown screenshots of the messages which the victim had saved.
Grant admitted to sending alarming and indecent communications to the woman.
A not-guilty plea to a charge of sending an explicit image was accepted by the Crown.
The accused’s defence solicitor Grant Dalglish asked for background reports to be ordered for his client ahead of his sentencing.
Sheriff Eric Brown agreed to defer sentence for one month and placed Grant, of Blane Place in Elgin, on the sex offenders register in the meantime.
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