Alastair Craig, 34, of Bishopbriggs, was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow on Friday 30 October 2026 for sexually assaulting a woman in a taxi. A published court list records his case, HMA v Alastair Craig, reference SCS/2025-058641, calling at that court at 10am the same morning as a deferred indictment. The procurator fiscal reference is GE24001820. HMA v Alastair Craig
What happened in the taxi
Glasgow Live reported that Craig, a first offender, had already been found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman, then 21, after a night out on 11 December 2023. He had been at Wunderbar in the city centre and had arranged a taxi to take two women home. During the journey, while one woman was passed out, he repeatedly touched the other woman's body and forced his hand into her underwear as she pushed him away.
He arranged for the taxi to drop the first woman at home. He was supposed to book a further stop for the second woman and did not, arranging instead for the taxi to take him and the woman to his home, where he begged her to come inside. He was found not guilty of attempting to rape her inside the property, and not guilty of a further charge of sexually assaulting another woman on 20 January 2023.
The sentence
Lord Mulholland had strongly considered a custodial sentence. He imposed a direct alternative to custody: 250 hours of community service, an indefinite non-harassment order, and registration as a sex offender. A social work report recorded victim-blaming. Craig had alleged collusion between the victims and had not accepted his guilt. The judge had seen no evidence of that collusion during the trial. He told Craig he was the only one to blame for the incident, that he had engaged in victim-blaming during the trial and had shown no remorse.
"What you did to that girl was terrible. You have a lot to learn about how to treat women."
As part of the sentence, Craig is to undergo treatment for the sexual offence, aimed at reducing further offending, and must notify the authorities if he enters a new relationship.
The woman, now 25, told Glasgow Live: "It was horrific." He was meant to have been dropped off first. He had spoken of being concerned about the women getting home. The other woman had passed out, and he started touching her. "I was smacking his hand away but he just kept trying to force his hands." She was meant to be dropped off next, but the taxi went the other way. Her address had not been put in. "He continued to try and touch me and I told him to stop but he didn't. I was worried about not getting believed. What he put me through was horrendous."
Outside the High Court, the judge's words had reached her. He had made clear what kind of man Craig is, and she became emotional on hearing how close he had come to sending Craig to prison. "It's a relief that it's all over now. I can move on with my life and he will always have what he did to me following him around."