A Limekilns man has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl.

Michael Saint, 60, of Charles Way South, was also convicted of other sex offences after a trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

These included making sexual comments to another girl, aged 12, asking her to wear a bikini and to model for him.

He was put on the sex offenders register will be sentenced next month.

The jury found Saint guilty of six of the seven charges he faced.

He repeatedly placed his hand on and stroked a girl’s leg and touched her breasts on various occasions between 2012 and 2015. The girl was 10 when the abuse starred.

When she was 13, he began making sexualised comments to her about her body and appearance. He offered to buy her clothes if she allowed him to touch her.

He sent sexual messages to another girl from the age of 12.

He repeatedly asked her to model for him, discussed her underwear, asked her to wear a bikini for him. This took place between April 2020 and March 2021.

He was also guilty of communicating indecently with a woman by sending her sexual messages between December 2019 and March 2021.

Sheriff Charles Macnair put Saint on the sex offenders register and called for reports. Bail was granted and Saint will be sentenced on October 27.