Wife killer Lee Milne exposed as warped paedophile who attacked boys in the street

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: Lee Milne was found guilty of culpable homicide for causing his wife’s suicide – but this isn’t the only horrific crime for which he’s been convicted

Lee Milne’s wife took her own life after being terrorised by the domestic abuser, but unbeknown to many, he was also a paedophile.

In a landmark case that was the first of its kind in Scotland, Milne, 39, was found guilty of culpable homicide and jailed for eight years last week after his wife Kimberley died by suicide in July 2023. He was also found guilty of coercive and controlling behaviour towards Kimberley, 28, who jumped from a motorway bridge on to the A90 in Dundee.

He had subjected her to months of torment and trapped her in a marriage she never wanted to begin with. She told police that he had spat on her, strangled her, and punched her in the ribs whilst she begged him to stop. He tried to cut her off from her family and friends, controlled every penny she had access to, and relentlessly insulted her.

In the last hours of her life, CCTV showed the evil abuser screaming at Kimberley in a supermarket as she cowered away in fright, before trying to drive his car at her – and only narrowly missing. Her harrowing final moments were also caught on camera as she walked along the motorway bridge to her death.

A witness who saw the husband and wife in Dundee’s Kingsway Retail Park the night Kimberley died described her as “cowering, scared”.

“She did not really do much. There was not much she could do. It did not look like [she was responding to the man] – she seemed too frightened.”

But it was not only Kimberley who was frightened of Milne. Last summer he was convicted of two charges of sexual assault against a child under the age of 13 in Forfar Sheriff’s court. On another count he was found not guilty. One of the young victims who was groped by Milne over his clothes in broad daylight – and in the middle of a street – said to authorities that his mum had warned him to steer clear of the ‘scary’ abuser.

Milne was going by a different name at the time, Lee Roy, the Scottish Sun reports, and nicknamed “Jaffa”. “Basically, I was walking home from the town, it was eight-ish, nine-ish,” the child reportedly said to the police. “At the traffic lights, we saw Jaffa. “I said ‘Is that Jaffa? My mum said try not to go near him’. Me and my mates were like, ‘don’t look’.

“He got closer and closer, he hugged me first. I pushed him off,” the boy continued. “He touched my private parts and he touched my butt as well. That’s what happened.”

Another incident that took place in the summer of 2024 against a child aged under 13 saw Milne grope the bottom of the child over their clothes near a Loch.

He was reportedly found guilty on two of the sexual assault charges and was ordered to complete a therapy program for sex offenders, called ‘Moving Forward Making Changes’. The report said he was put on the sex offender’s register and supervision and banned from having contact with kids under the age of 16 for three years.

In the culpable homicide trial over Kimberley’s untimely death, the jury is not believed to have been informed about these convictions in line with standard practice to ensure that defendants receive a fair trial.

For Kimberley, who bravely tried to get help from the authorities on more than one occasion, his web of lies and deceit left her feeling that there was only one way out.

Professor Jane Monkton Smith, an internationally renowned expert in homicide, coercive control and stalking, told the Mirror: “Coercive control usually either causes the mental health vulnerability or exacerbates it. We cannot separate the coercive control from the suicide.

“It traps people in a situation where they cannot escape the person who is controlling them. And for some people, who try to escape, they can come to feel that there is no way out. This person is going to be abusing them for the rest of their life. They’ve tried the police, they’ve tried mental health help, they’ve tried domestic abuse services, they’ve tried going to their GP. Nothing gets rid of this person. And it’s the entrapment.”

Reacting to the sentencing of Milne last week, one of the world’s leading experts said, “My immediate thought is that the sentence is quite short. If this was a straight homicide I’m sure the sentence would have been longer. There may still be some way to travel to understand that causing someone to take their own life through relentless abuse is as planned and dangerous as a more common understanding of homicide. It would be a mistake to think that the victim who took her own life was not terrorised into doing it. In my opinion this does not reduce the abusers culpability.”

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