A Scottish man has been handed a 20-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to the chilling abduction and sexual assault of a local child. Andrew George Miller, also known as Amy George, was initially arrested in February in connection with the disappearance of an 11-year-old girl, who he abducted “while dressed in female clothing,” according to the Edinburgh High Court. He was also found in possession of horrific child sexual abuse materials.
On February 5, Miller approached the child and offered her a drive home while wearing women’s clothes. After winning the girl’s trust, Miller took her to his own residence and confined her in his bedroom, where he repeatedly sexually abused her over a 27-hour period.
The child asked to be allowed to go home, at which point Miller told the girl he intended to keep her in captivity and that he was her “new family.” According to court records, Miller exposed his genitals to the victim and forced her to watch pornography and “fetish videos.”
The victim was first reported missing from Galashiels in the Scottish Borders area after failing to return home following a play-date with friends.
Police said she was around a “20 minute walk from home” before she disappeared without a trace, prompting a massive multi-agency operation into locating her. Countless volunteers took to the streets in a bid to find the youngster.
Police Scotland announced that the girl had been found on February 7 in the village of Gattonside, and she was promptly returned to her family. Later that same day, law enforcement announced Miller’s arrest in connection to the girl’s disappearance. The girl had managed to locate a landline telephone while Miller slept and called the police.
Officers arrived on the scene quickly, where they found Miller wearing a bra with silicone breasts, women’s underwear, and tights. CCTV footage later recovered by law enforcement showed Miller abducting the girl.
Presiding judge Lord Arthurson commented on Miller’s “nauseating depravity” when delivering the sentence today.
“Dressed and presenting as a female, you offered the child a lift, drove past the area of her home, took her into your house and removed her phone. You assaulted her on arrival, carried her into the bedroom, removed her lower clothing and immediately commenced her ordeal of deplorable penetrative sexual offending. You made her wear tights, in keeping with your long standing perverted fetishistic interests,” the judge said.
Lord Arthurson further emphasized that he believed Miller’s feminine appearance was a ruse designed to earn the trust of his victim.
“One only has to ask oneself the simple question: would an 11 year old girl have willingly entered your car had you presented as a man? The answer is that obviously she would not. Your intentions were wicked and predatory, and clearly involved a substantial component of planning.”
It was noted by Lord Arthurson that upon his arrest, Miller denied harming the girl and insisted that he had behaved in a “motherly way” towards her. He also claimed to have performed volunteer work as a Good Samaritan. Miller described the abduction of the child as a “game,” according to a risk assessment report, and appeared to place responsibility for his sexual offending on the victim.
The Risk Management Authority also said Miller frequently discussed his desire to “limit the impact” of his predatory actions on the “wider trans community.”
During the course of the investigation, it was revealed that Miller had ten previous convictions, but that he had “never before received a custodial or even a community‑based sentence.” In addition to pleading guilty to the charges of abduction and sexual abuse of a minor, Miller also admitted to the possession of multiple indecent images of children, including media depicting the anal rape of a young child. He curated his sick collection over the course of 19 years.
Lord Arthurson sentenced Miller to 20 years in prison, with an extension period of eight years.
Miller was formerly the owner of Miller Butchers of Melrose, a poorly-rated meat shop which recently shut down. Despite floundering in recent years, the shop had a long heritage in the community and had previously been well-regarded as it was passed down through the Miller family.
Miller Butchers of Melrose was briefly mentioned in Career of Evil, a crime novel published under JK Rowling’s pen name, Robert Galbraith. For a period of time, a Career of Evil-themed display was shown in the butcher shop window.
Miller’s transvestic tendencies were apparently well-known to his neighbors.
A source local to Miller told Reduxx that he had been labelled “tranny Miller” while in high school because of his proclivity for cross-dressing, and that he had been known as a “knicker pincher” even as a student.
After graduating, Miller apparently began occasionally dressing in women’s clothes both in the community and in his butcher shop. Two sources independently claimed that Miller had past contact with police for stealing women’s undergarments from clotheslines.
Reduxx has previously located two Facebook profiles belonging to Miller, one of which utilizes a “female” identity under the name “Amy George.” Miller appears to have operated the accounts simultaneously, posting on both his “male” and “female” identified accounts regularly.
In January of this year, Miller made a post on his “male” account alluding to the debacle surrounding Scotland’s Gender Recognition Act.
“Silly Billys [sic] in Westminster… Never mess with Scottish Transgender Issues,” Miller wrote just days after the UK Government moved to block a piece of Scottish legislation which sought to significantly relax the requirements for individuals to change their legal sex in Scotland.
In January of 2020, Miller posted on teaching children to explore their identities.
“That simple question that we ask ourselves… who am I? Deliver that same question to your children. Let them be themselves. Guide them, but not with boundaries. Teach them, but not with misguided morals. Love them and let them know and feel that they are loved, because that is the greatest gift of all,” Miller posted as “Amy George.”