Note of appeal against sentence:- The appellant was convicted on indictment at the sheriff court of a number of charges including inter alia contraventions of sections 8 and 35 of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009, namely, two charges of sexual exposure (charges 2 and 3). The sentencing sheriff imposed a community payback order in relation to each of the charges. The appellant breached the CPO and the sheriff imposed a new CPO which was yet again breached by the appellant. The sheriff thereafter imposed a custodial sentence of 18 months imprisonment on each of the two charges (6 months attributable to bail aggravations) which periods were to run consecutively to each other. The appellant appealed against the sentence imposed on the grounds that it was excessive. On behalf of the appellant it was conceded that a custodial sentence was appropriate, however, it was submitted that the period of 36 months imprisonment was excessive having regard to:- (1) the appellant’s age, he was 19 at the time of the first offence and 20 at the time of the second; (2) his lack of any analogous previous convictions on his limited schedule; (3) he had never been in custody before; and (4) the nature of the offences which were non-contact and were isolated acts of sexual exhibitionism rather than any concerted campaign of threatening or harassing behaviour and did not result in any significant alarm on the part of the two complainers who had simply walked on. Here the court considered that the sentence of 36 months imprisonment was excessive and allowed the appeal. The court considered that the overall effect of the consecutive sentences was excessive and quashed the sentences in relation to charges 2 and 3 and substituted a sentence of 12 months for each charge (3 months attributable to the bail aggravations). In addition, the court ordered that the sentences were to run concurrently with each other.