A PERVERT DJ who sexually assaulted three schoolgirls at an 18th birthday party has been jailed.

Jamie Maclennan lured a 15-year-old girl into an isolated toilet cubicle before forcing his hands down her underwear.

Maclennan, who worked as a radiographer for the NHS, also tried to force the girl to perform a sex act on him during the attack on April 16 last year.

The sex attacker attempted to blame the teen by claiming she had come on to him by “dancing provocatively” while he span records at the party and that the pair had engaged in “flirtatious banter”.

A second girl, aged 17, was also assaulted by Maclennan during the party when he grabbed her arms and forced himself upon her.

The attacker repeatedly kissed the schoolgirl on the face and also placed her hand inside his trousers.

He also slapped the bottom of a third victim, a 17-year-old schoolgirl, after she had asked him to play her favourite song during the dance at Macmerry Miners Club.

Maclennan, of Larbert, near Falkirk, denied the allegations against him but was found guilty by a jury following a trial at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last month.

The 25-year-old was jailed for 27 months and placed on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years when he was sentenced by Sheriff Thomas Welsh QC at the Capital court on Tuesday.

Sheriff Welsh told Maclennan: “I have listened very carefully to what has been said and I have listened very carefully to all the evidence given by the teenagers in this case.

“These are serious offences and are characterised by an abuse of power on your part.

“In my view you forced yourself on to the victims in this case and I am satisfied custody is inevitable.”

Previously the court heard from the three teenage victims, who all gave their evidence to a closed court.

Witness Morag Luke told the jury that she saw a young blonde girl running from the toilet cubicle area with “tears coming down her face”.

And Mrs Luke added that when she asked the girl what was wrong, the youngster said Maclennan had taken her “along the corridor and had been touching her and putting his hand down her trousers”.

Mrs Luke said the girl added Maclennan had tried to force her to carry out a sex act on him.

But Maclennan claimed the 15-year-old girl had come on to him by “dancing provocatively” in front of him while he was on the decks and that the pair had engaged in “flirtatious banter” during the evening. He added that the young teenager had “encouraged his hands” to go down her pants in the toilet cubicle.

He also admitted taking scores of selfies with the youngest girl while on stage and claimed he thought she was 17.

But prosecutor Kim Schofield said: “You took advantage of your position. You were a DJ at an 18th birthday party and you are 25.

“You lured her down a corridor on the pretence of giving her a business card. You took her into one of the toilets and stopped her from leaving.

“You forced yourself on her, you kissed her and she repeatedly tried to push you off. You put your hand down her trousers.

“She managed to get out of that room and was highly distressed.”

Following the party, all three girls made complaints to the police of being sexually assaulted by Maclennan and the 25-year-old NHS employee was arrested when officers attended at the Capital’s Western General Hospital the following week.

Maclennan broke down several times in the dock as he continually pleaded his innocence to the attacks but he was found guilty by a jury on two charges by a unanimous decision and the third charge of slapping a girl’s bottom by a majority.

On Tuesday, defence solicitor Zahrah Ahmad said her client now “accepts responsibility” for the three sex attacks and he was “truly appalled at his behaviour” that night.