A MAN was jailed for 10 years today after sexually abusing three sisters three decades ago.

A judge told James McCann that although his crimes were in the past "the time has come when you must take responsibility for what you did".

Lord Summers said that he accepted McCann's life had moved on but added he had been convicted of five serious offences.

McCann, 66, of Shakespeare Avenue, Clydebank, was earlier found guilty of indecency offences against the three victims, despite denying the charges.

Defence counsel Sarah Livingstone said: "He has not been in any kind of trouble since these offences."

"There is no suggestion following an extensive police inquiry that there has been any further sexual offending," she said at the High Court in Edinburgh.

She said the first allegation against McCann came in 1987 and he has had "this hanging over him for a number of decades".

The defence counsel said that McCann now suffered from ill-health, including angina, and was "not surprisingly depressed at the current situation".

One of McCann's victims told his trial that she was scared to tell mother what was happening to her.

The woman, now aged 46, sobbed as she told the abuse she suffered from McCann began when she was just four years old.

McCann would touch her and get her to watch porn videos and would tell her: "That's what boys and girls do."

She told the court: "I thought it was my fault. I felt ashamed and felt dirty."

Prosecutors claimed that McCann had carried a systematic course of criminal conduct against the youngsters, committing offences that had "life changing effects".

Another victim said she did not report the abuse because "I wanted to feel normal" but eventually went to the police in 2015 to report what McCann had done to her.

McCann was put on the sex offenders' register.