Rapist who tried to escape prison time by claiming he was too fat for court found to have died from obesity and heart disease
Stanley Sandison was found dead inside his cell at HMP Glenochil in December 2016, just 15 months into his seven-year sentence
A morbidly obese 336-pound man who was accused of raping a string of young girls in Moray, Scotland, in the 1960s and 1970s, who had tried to escape justice by claiming he was too fat to appear in court, died of heart disease, an inquiry has found.
Stanley Sandison, of Forth Place, Lossiemouth, was convicted for the rapes in July 2015 after he had been excused on numerous previous occasions after the presiding judge was told the then-68-year-old suffered from "morbid obesity." A specially-convened trial had to then be set up at the Tiny Sheriff Court building in Elgin close to Sandison's home because his counsel said he was physically unable to travel to a "far away" location such as Glasgow or Aberdeen.