February 2017 Selkirk pensioner jailed for eight years after abusing children in Galashiels and Stow A PENSIONER from Selkirk has been jailed for eight years after subjecting a vulnerable girl to an ordeal of abuse and rape two decades ago. William Wilkinson also indecently assaulted a second girl at a golf range in the Scottish Borders. The 79-year-old of Ladyschaw Drive had earlier denied two charges of indecency against a girl when she was between nine and 15 as well as raping her when she aged between nine and 11. He also denied indecently assaulting the second girl when she between 11 and 12. Following trial he was found guilty of all the charges. The High Court in Edinburgh heard how Wilkinson locked the first victim in a portable cabin and took her to secluded areas where he carried out sex acts and made her perform sexual activity which caused her to be sick. Wilkinson’s sex offending took place at Galashiels and Stow between 1993 and 2000.