A Scots serial rapist has been discovered useless in an Edinburgh jail simply days after he was instructed he would face a lifelong restriction order.
Stephen Charters, who was beforehand a worship chief, was jailed for 5 years final Monday.
Charters was discovered responsible of abusing a number of girls over the course of three a long time.
It is understood that the 57-year-old's physique was found in a cell at HMP Edinburgh in Saughton.
Charters was discovered responsible final 12 months of a collection of non-recent sexual offences, together with rape towards 4 girls, between November 1984 and October 2015.
One in every of his victims was a teenage lady who was a churchgoer.
Lat week he was additionally made topic to an Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR) which made him topic to circumstances and monitoring for the remainder of his life.
Woman Carmichael instructed him his offences had induced "critical and enduring hurt".
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Charters beforehand served a earlier five-year jail time period in 2016 for intercourse crimes towards kids.
Final week, Police Scotland counseled the bravery of the survivors for coming ahead in order that Charters do not go "unpunished".
A Scottish Jail Service spokesman declined to remark.