Derek Longmuir (born 19 March 1951,

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) is a Scottish former drummer and a founding member of the 1970s pop group, Bay City Rollers. His elder brother,

Alan Longmuir Alan Longmuir (20 June 1948 – 2 July 2018) was a Scottish musician and a founding member of the 1970s pop group, the Bay City Rollers. He played the bass guitar in the band whilst his younger brother Derek Longmuir was drummer. Biograp ...

, played bass guitar in the group.

Biography

Longmuir was born at Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion Hospital, in Edinburgh. He appeared on each of the band's nine studio albums through to 1981. He retired from the

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in the early 1980s and trained as a nurse working at

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. In 2000, Longmuir was sentenced to 300 hours' community service after admitting to possessing child pornography. Despite his guilty plea, he maintained that the offending materials did not belong to him but were left behind by an acquaintance. Longmuir said he pleaded guilty in hope of avoiding a "media circus". Despite his conviction and initially being suspended from working as a nurse, the conduct committee of the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing Midwifery and Health Visiting (UKCC) decided to give him a caution and allowed him to continue working as a nurse. In an interview in the ''

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'' on 7 May 2000, Longmuir's foster son, Jorge Loureiro, said that Longmuir was innocent and had been framed by an obsessed American fan he had befriended, with discs having been sent to his home anonymously days before he was arrested.

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Bibliography

* Stambler, Irwin, ''Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock & Soul''. 1974. St. Martin's Press, Inc., New York, N.Y. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Longmuir, Derek 1951 births Scottish nurses Living people Musicians from Edinburgh 20th-century Scottish criminals Scottish rock drummers British male drummers Bay City Rollers members Scottish people convicted of child pornography offenses Criminals from Edinburgh