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A convicted child rapist who pushed a mother and her son towards a cliff edge in a historic attack at Arthur’s Seat has had his sentence reduced by two years following an appeal.

Daniel Wilson was found guilty following trial of assaulting his then partner as she held her son - aged between two and four at the time - and repeatedly pushing her towards a cliff edge causing her to slip, holding them at the cliff edge and repeatedly threatening to push them off to the danger of their lives. The incident took place on an occasion between 1996 and 1998.

Wilson was also convicted of assaulting the boy by punching and slapping him and repeatedly striking him on the head and body to his injury, at addresses in Edinburgh on various occasions between 1994 and 1998.

Child rapist who pushed mother and son towards Arthur’s Seat cliff edge wins appeal to have jail sentence reduced