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A man has admitted trying to murder a 60-year-old woman in an Aberdeen park amid a plan to abduct and rape her two young granddaughters.A man has admitted trying to murder a 60-year-old woman in an Aberdeen park amid a plan to abduct and rape her two young granddaughters.
Ryan Yates, 29, stabbed the woman while the children escaped in the Bridge of Don area of the city last October.Ryan Yates, 29, stabbed the woman while the children escaped in the Bridge of Don area of the city last October.
Two days before the incident he was put under a court order banning him from accosting females after a sex attack, the High Court in Edinburgh heard.Two days before the incident he was put under a court order banning him from accosting females after a sex attack, the High Court in Edinburgh heard.
Sentence was deferred for a full risk assessment order.Sentence was deferred for a full risk assessment order.
Yates carried out the attack days after he was released from prison for an assault which contained a sexual element.
The incident happened in a park in Aberdeen last year
He was caught by police shortly after the attack and said he had gone out that day "looking to find some children to have sex with".
He said he intended to kill the woman he attacked "so that I can get to the kids".
Unemployed Yates admitted attempting to murder the grandmother with the intention of abducting and raping the young children, who were both aged under 10 at the time of the attack in Westfield Park on 14 October last year.
He also admitted breaching the terms of an interim sexual offences prevention order made against him at Aberdeen Sheriff Court two days earlier.
Det Supt Brian Yule of Grampian Police said: "This was a horrific crime targeting an innocent woman out for a walk in the park with two young children."
He added: "Grampian Police and its partners are thorough in its application of nationally-set regulations for dealing with registered sex offenders.
"At the time of his arrest, Yates had fully complied with all the conditions relating to his registration and our officers had visited him regularly in the days after his release.
"We and the other partners involved in the supervision of offenders devote considerable resources to this area and we will continue to do so in order to provide the best possible levels of protection to the public we serve."