Government will bring in Yates report recommendations

The Scottish Government will introduce as many recommendations as possible from a report on a sex offender who tried to murder a woman so he could abduct and rape her young granddaughters, the First Minister has told MSPs.

Alex Salmond said the government was “carefully considering” the contents of the significant case review of Ryan Yates and his “despicable crime”. Yates attacked the 60-year-old woman with a knife in an Aberdeen park but she fought back to try to protect her granddaughters, who were aged two and eight.

A court order had banned Yates from accosting females in public.

But a report into the way the authorities dealt with him said those monitoring him were “limited in their ability to manage the risks” he posed.