A South Queensferry Paedophile, Robert Knight, tried to conceal the ashes of his partner’s deceased kid after she ended their relationship upon discovering his status as a child sex offender.
Robert Knight issued the reprehensible threat to discard the urn with the child’s remains “in a bush” after the wife had gathered her belongings and fled the family residence.
The victim relocated with her small boy following the exposure of 38-year-old Knight as a sexual predator by a paedophile hunting group on social media in 2023.
Robert Knight issued murder threats to the woman, transmitted an image of himself brandishing a firearm, and threatened to douse a relative’s door with fuel.
The Edinburgh Sheriff Court was informed that the perpetrator, Robert Knight, inundated the frightened victim with texts, emails, and social media messages via Snapchat and WhatsApp in an effort to communicate with her.
The court was informed that Knight made 107 phone calls and sent 29 emails threatening her family members and demanding monetary compensation within a 48-hour timeframe in August 2023.
Robert Knight dispatched letters, appeared at the woman’s new residence in Edinburgh, and left messages after infiltrating her BBC iPlayer and Netflix accounts in an attempt to reach her.
On Tuesday, July 3, Prosecutor Eilidh Grant presented a prepared written statement, detailing that Robert Knight had issued multiple threats to harm the woman and her family, including the abhorrent threat to conceal the ashes of her deceased child.
Ms Grant said: “On February 23, 2023, the accused sent text messages which read ‘Your family will pay. I (sic) make sure you have to move far away from your family for them causing this.
‘If you don’t call in five I gonna put [child’s name] in a bush hidden in case you called the police you won’t get him back. Hope your happy.’
“The reference to [the child] is a reference to [the woman’s] son who had passed away several years prior and who’s ashes she kept in her home with the accused.
“As a result of this comment she sought to end all contact with the accused. The following day she contacted police to report these various threats made by the accused.”
The court also heard Robert Knight had deliberately driven his car at a male friend of the woman and knocked him over before shouting “I’ll come back and I’ll you” at the terrified victim.
Robert Knight was arrested and appeared in court in September 2023 and after being released on bail he posted a picture of a black handgun to the family group chat before panicking and deleting the image.
The paedophile thug, from South Queensferry, then sent a picture of him holding the gun to a relative and stated he “had plans” for his ex-partner.
He added: “If I don’t get to see my son, then she won’t either. I’ll plead guilty, I’ve nothing to lose.”
Police were alerted to the threats and armed officers raided Robert Knight’s home where they found “a black imitation handgun” during a search of the property on October 10, 2023.
Robert Knight appeared from custody at the capital’s sheriff court for sentencing on Tuesday after previously pleading guilty to the offences.
Sheriff Fergus Thomson jailed Knight for a total of three years and seven months and issued him with a 10 year non-harassment order that bans him from any contact with the victim.
Robert Knight was caught sending a series of disgusting sexual comments and images of his penis to who he believed was a 12-year-old girl in August last year.
He was in fact in contact with an adult decoy from a paedo hunter group and was jailed for 340 days and placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely after pleading guilty in January this year.
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