Record details
A serial abuser has been jailed for nine years for serious sexual offences committed in Perthshire.
Clifford Hodgkins, 42, abused a woman over the course of 19 months between September 2020 and January 2022 at locations in Blairgowrie.
He was convicted at the High Court in Edinburgh earlier this year of rape, physical and sexual assaults and abusive behaviour, including brandishing a screwdriver at his victim.
He was sentenced to nine years in prison with a further three years' supervision and placed on the sex offenders' register for life.
