A Forfar paedophile racing monster who preyed on children for more than 20 years using his wealth and influence is behind bars. Targeting eleven children, one aged only eight, bike nut Colin Bandeen, 63, ran Bandeen Motorsport in Kirriemuir, Angus, from 2017.
By lavishing parents with gifts and money during a nasty campaign spanning 2001, the sicko of Forfar would earn their confidence.
During a High Court trial in Stirling, he refuted the claims; still, juries found him guilty of rape, sex assaults, and even stalking the parents of five children at Knockhill Racing Circuit.
“Colin Bandeen ingratiates himself with families of young children by generous gifts, invited himself into their houses and their lives, takes them on trips and holidays, all to use and abuse children for his own sexual gratification,” prosecutor David Logan told the court.
During his four-day trial, the court learnt Colin Bandeen operated a motorbike company in Scotland after working in the oil business in the Far East.
But he tried to work his way into the confidence of the parents of five more, behaved disrespectfully towards a fifth and sixth, and used the position of trust and respect he acquired through his firm as a front to sexually abuse four youngsters.
Jurors also heard how he acquired access to a number of his victims through a Church of Scotland acquaintance.
Colin Bandeen assaulted two boys aged eight and nine, crawling naked into a sleeping bag with them, and gave a dad food and drink.
He brought the lads to England three times, mistreating them in hotel rooms.
Colin Bandeen bought motorcycle leathers for their sister, then got her to change in front of him.
When she was just 13, he forced her to put cream on his back and tried in vain to push her and a male school friend to have intercourse with each other.
Now in her twenties, the girl provided testimony behind a screen and claimed to have been afraid. I snuggled up in the bed of Mr Colin Bandeen’s mother and wept myself to fall asleep.
Colin Bandeen kept sexually abusing the girl’s school friend, using his love of 4x4s and motorbikes as justification for trips shopping.
He also paid him £300 a month, opened a bank account for him, purchased his fancy clothes and motorbike gear, and pilled booze on him.
Jurors decided he was guilty of six charges of sexually abusing or assaulting three boys aged between eight and sixteen, including the rape of a fourteen-year-old.
Two charges of stalking the parents of five children at residences in Kirriemuir, Forfar, and at Knockhill Racing Circuit; he was also found guilty of employing obscene and libidinous behaviour towards a girl and boy.
“These were terrible and traumatic events for these children that had a huge impact on their lives,” Mr Logan told jurors.
He lavished presents and money to win families and children to trust him.
“A recurring motif was his desire to have youngsters under his control, to shape and convince them to engage in activities they ought not to have been near their age.
“He tried constantly for unsupervised access to lads.
“There was a theme of corruption of innocence – the corruption of innocent young children.”
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