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A man who abducted a primary school girl while dressed as a woman and then sexually assaulted her in his Borders home has been jailed for 20 years.
Andrew Miller, who is also known as Amy George, offered to give the girl a lift home in February this year.
But Miller, 53, instead drove her to his own house, took her into a bedroom and refused to let her leave.
He then subjected her to a series of sexual assaults over the course of the next 27 hours.
The High Court in Edinburgh also heard Miller will be supervised on licence for eight years in addition to his custodial sentence.
Passing sentence, judge Lord Arthurson told Miller the narrative was “frankly nauseating in terms of its depravity and criminal sexual deviancy”.
He added: “The abduction of young children from the streets of our cities, towns and villages for the purpose of their sexual torment over a prolonged period is mercifully rare in this jurisdiction.
“It is a uniquely appalling crime striking, as it does, at the heart of family life and, indeed, the very fabric of our society.”
He described Miller’s offences as “brazen and chilling” and said his intentions were “wicked and predatory”.
Lord Arthurson continued: “The suffering of your victim and her family at your hands has been incalculable and life-changing.
“The trauma further inflicted by you upon her local community and the wider public is also immeasurable.”
During his risk assessment Miller referred to the abduction, which he carried out at 17:55 on 5 February, as a “game”.
In relation to the ending, he told the reporter he “went into business mode trying to think of a solution”.
The court was previously told the girl, who did not know Miller, was only able to escape from the bedroom after he fell asleep on the second…
