JUSTICE caught up yesterday with a man who sexually abused two sisters more than three decades ago.
David Percy, now 47, committed the offences when he was aged between 13 and 20. The victims were five and six when he subjected them to abuse. They waited until 1993 before making the allegations against him.
Yesterday, after a four-day trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court, Percy, of Tollcross Road, Glasgow, was found guilty of two charges against one woman, now 40, and one charge against her sister, now 35.
Both sisters gave evidence alleging the abuse.
Percy was convicted of putting the 40-year-old victim through a seven-year ordeal, and her sister through one which lasted five years.
The 35-year-old woman told how she kept what she described as her shameful ``dirty secret'' for three decades until she poured out her story to an evening newspaper.
She told Mrs Margaret McFarlane, prosecuting, that while appearing on stage at a charity concert, she confessed to the audience she had been abused.
Miss X said she discussed the matter with her sister and confirmed her suspicions that she, too, had been abused by Percy. Speaking of the lasting effects of the abuse, Miss X said she felt worthless and soiled for years as a child.
She also trembled and developed a nervous habit of twisting her hair and pulling lumps out of it until she had a bald patch.
In court she was accused by defence counsel Mr Jack Davidson of making up the allegations and of being an ``attention seeker'' who was wanting money for her story. She denied the allegations and told the court that her motive was justice and not revenge.
Both women claimed that their experiences at the hands of Percy helped to wreck former marriages.
In evidence for his defence, unemployed Percy, who played the flute in a marching band, said that he was disgusted by the allegations and claimed he knew of no reason why the women should have made them up against him.
Sheriff Craig Henry called for social inquiry and community service reports and deferred Percy's sentence until November 4.
He warned Percy that he faced the possibility of a severe jail sentence.
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