A Scottish guy who attempted to evade prosecution by visiting the United States, in which he even faked his death in a California shore, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for rape and other sexual crimes, police in Scotland stated.
Kim Avis was found guilty of raping three girls and sexually assaulting a minor after a trial in the High Court in Glasgow, Scotland, a month.
The 57-year-old was convicted of 13 fees linked to sexual offences which happened between 2006 and 2017, and also an extra cost of neglecting to attend a former trial date later that he fled to America, ” the Scotland prosecutor’s office stated.
Avis has been sentenced last week for 12 years in prison for the sexual crimes and three years of failing to show up in a first trial at March 2019.
Avis was on bond when he flew in to Los Angeles International Airport at February 2019, utilizing the title Ken Gordon-Avis.
Several days afterwards, his teenaged kid reported him missing in Monastery Beach from the shore of Carmel, California, later he stated Avis went to get a night swim from treacherous waters.
Searchers discovered no hint off the region occasionally called”Mortuary Beach” because of its lethal reputation.
Following three days of intense hunting, detectives started to imagine a hoax.
They said that the son’s accounts lacked critical details, and he could not answer basic questions such as how both have to California’s central coast after travel by air in Scotland into Los Angeles.
Police in California afterward found that Avis, who’s in the Edinburgh region, was desired on several counts of rape in Scotland.
His son then returned home and didn’t face fees for submitting a false report.
The investigation has been turned into the U.S.
Marshals Service, which includes responsibility for grabbing wanted offenders.
Avis was detained five months afterwards in Colorado Springs, Colorado, also extradited back to Scotland, in which he had been held in prison before his trial.
“Kim Avis moved to amazing lengths to prevent justice for his crimes,” explained Fraser Gibson, the public prosecutor to get High Court sexual crimes.
“Due to the efforts of prosecutors, working with US law enforcement, he’s been brought to justice”