SICKO CAGED
Scots beast who tried to fake his own death in California surf accident guilty of catalogue of sex abuse
Grant McCabe
Updated: 7 May 2021, 18:29
A MARKET trader who tried to cheat justice by faking his own death has been found guilty of horrific sexual abuse.
Kim Avis was today convicted of 14 charges after a two-week trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
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Kim Avis was found guilty of a catalogue of abuseCredit: AP:Associated Press
He preyed on two girls and two women between 2006 and 2017 mainly in Inverness including at his property called Wolves Den.
Pony-tailed Avis - also a well known busker in the city - should have originally stood trial in March 2019.
Scot who tried to fake own death after fleeing to USA found guilty of horrific sexual abuse
Kim Avis, 57, was caught in Colorado and hauled back to Scotland in 2019.
Kim Gordon (also known as Kim Avis) from Inverness. (Image: Peter Jolly)
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image captionSearch teams looking for Kim Avis at Monastery Beach in February 2019 in an image from TV new station KSBW
A Scot who went missing in the US before later being traced and extradited to the UK has been found guilty of raping three women.
Kim Avis, from Inverness, disappeared in February 2019 after reportedly going for a swim at a beach in California.
The following month a warrant was issued for his arrest after he failed to appear in court in Scotland to face allegations of rape and sexual assault.
Avis was traced to Colorado Springs in July 2019 and was extradited.
Updated: May 8, 2021, 11:47 am
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Police in America have released the phone call made by Kim Avis’s teenage son to report him missing in America.
The call reveals that the Inverness market trader failed to return from swimming on a US beach.
Reuben Avis made the call to the emergency services after his father disappeared from the sands on Monastery Beach in Carmel, California in 2019.