Rapist caught after escaping custody at Edinburgh court

Aaron Strachan tried to escape from the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday.

A convicted rapist has been recaptured by police, after escaping from custody at the High Court in Edinburgh.

Aaron Strachan, 21, had been due to be sentenced on Tuesday for the attack on a teenage girl in the capital last year.

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