A TOP lawyer faces being suspended for five years after saying he would have sex with a rape charity boss “just to have something over her”.
A hearing found King’s Counsel Brian McConnachie guilty of “serious and reprehensible” behaviour and accused him of comments “akin to blackmail”.
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BY ANNIE BROWN
A LEADING lawyer could be kicked out of the prestigious Faculty of Advocates for sending "extremely demeaning" text messages about a rape crisis charity boss.
Brian McConnachie, KC, boasted he would have sex with Sandy Brindley "just to have something over her".
A disciplinary committee said his comments were "akin to blackmail".
It added he was guilty of "serious and reprehensible" behaviour in a series of salacious texts, including sending a sexually explicit picture of himself from the toilets of a high court minutes after defending a rape accused.
He could now be thrown out of the Faculty of Advocates and suspended from practicing as a lawyer for up to five years.
McConnachie, a former high court prosecutor, is one of Scotland's highest Legal Aid earners and has acted in some of the country's most high-profile C cases.
He had sent a text on October 27, 2020, claiming another KC, referred to as Mr A, had told him he wanted to have sex with Ms Brindley, CEO of Rape Crisis Scotland.
McConnachie wrote Mr A had "once said to me hed s**g Sandy Brindley".
This story is from the February 15, 2023 edition of Daily Record.
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