Judge says Sean Hogg, 17 when he committed the crime and now 21, would have been jailed if he had been over 25

Campaigners and politicians have expressed outrage after a man who raped a 13-year-old girl in a Scottish park when he was 17 was not given a jail sentence.

Sean Hogg, now 21, was given a 270-hour community payback order when he was sentenced at the high court in Glasgow on Monday.

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