Mirror UK
By Sarah Ward Ryan Merrifield News Reporter
18:51, 11 Oct 2023
A man who was sentenced to unpaid work after being convicted of raping a teenage girl has had his conviction quashed, leaving his accuser “devastated”.
Sean Hogg, 22, smirked as he left court after being told he would not be subject to a retrial following his acquittal. He was convicted of raping the girl on various occasions in 2018, when he was aged 17. He was spared jail by Judge Lord Lake at the High Court in Glasgow in April and was instead given 270 hours of unpaid work, although he said if Mr Hogg was over 25, he would have been sentenced to four or five years behind bars.