October 2014

Tweedbank man carried out sex act in front of girl, 13

A 30-YEAR-OLD man who exposed himself and carried out a sex act in front of three teenage girls at the seafront in Eyemouth has been put on the Sex Offenders Register. 

Vjaceslavs Poplavskis – who used to live in High Street, Eyemouth, but is now residing at Carlin Court in Tweedbank – was said to be experiencing marital difficulties and was drunk when he carried out the offence last October.

Duns Sheriff Court was told one of the girls was aged just 13 and two were 14.

The offence did not come to light until one of the girls told a youth worker at her secondary school. Defence lawyer Rory Bannerman said the first offender accepted responsibility for his conduct but denied any attraction towards younger girls.

Sheriff Kevin Drummond deferred sentence until December 3 for background reports and ordered the name of Poplavskis be put on the Sex Offenders Register for five years.