A paedophile who abducted a primary school-aged girl as she walked home and spent more than a day sexually abusing her, has been jailed for 20 years.

Andrew Miller, 53, who also uses the name Amy George, was dressed as a woman at the time he offered the child a lift in February, in the Scottish Borders. Before offering the lift, he has never seen her before .

He took the girl back to his house and subjected her to repeated attacks, which a judge described as ‘every parent’s worst nightmare’.

At the High Court in Edinburgh in May, Miller pleaded guilty to charges of abduction; sexual assault; watching pornography in the presence of the child under the age of 13; and possessing 242 indecent images of children.

The court heard Miller was transitioning into a woman.

Prosecutors said the girl was locked in his home for 27 hours, during which time she was repeatedly touched, and also forced to watch pornography.

Miller claimed to have offered the youngster a lift ‘because she was freezing’, and insisted forcing her to sleep beside him in bed ‘was a motherly thing’.

              Miller dressed as a woman

The girl called police while Miller, who was wearing women’s underwear, was asleep.

She found the landline phone and called police, saying she had been touched inappropriately, the court heard.

Judge Lord Arthurson described his offences as ‘abhorrent crimes’ of the utmost ‘deviance and depravity’ which were ‘the realisation of every parent’s worst nightmare’.

After his arrest, three laptops were seized from his property and a total of 242 indecent images of children were found.

Lord Arthurson said: ‘The narrative was frankly nauseating in terms of its depravity and criminal sexual deviancy.

‘On your arrest you denied the abduction and preposterously said you had acted in a motherly way.

‘Abduction of young children for the purposes of sexual torment is a mercifully rare crime in this jurisdiction.’

The judge told Miller his ‘primary focus’ throughout was himself and, while he showed an understanding of the impact his crimes had on the wider public, it was ‘limited’ in terms of the victim.

Lord Arthurson added: ‘You told the assessor you went into business mode, “trying to think of a plan”.’

Miller was sentenced to a 28-year extended sentence, with 20 years to be spent behind bars and a further eight spent on licence under supervision in the community.

He has also been placed on the sex offenders register.