Overview
- On Tuesday, June 2, 2026, the High Court in Edinburgh sentenced Robert Wilson to eight years in prison and ordered three years of supervision on release.
- Jurors convicted Wilson of raping a younger woman in Tranent between January and March 2013 and of repeatedly sexually assaulting resident Yvonne Carnie at The Abbey Retirement Home between August 2022 and February 2023; he was acquitted of an additional rape charge relating to Carnie.
- Carnie, who had progressive supranuclear palsy and died aged 70 in 2025, was shown in a specially trained police interview during the trial that jurors saw and was described in court as a highly vulnerable care-home resident.
- Sentencing judge Lady Ross said the offences were a 'terrible breach of trust' by someone employed to care for residents, found Wilson showed no remorse, and imposed an indefinite sex-offenders register entry plus a non-harassment order banning contact with the younger rape victim.
- Prosecutors and the victim’s family said the case exposed how a carer used access and trust to exploit vulnerable people, and Police Scotland urged anyone with historic abuse to report it so specialist teams can investigate and support victims.