The wife of the Da Vinci rapist's twin brother has pleaded with locals to stop terrorising her 'seriously ill' husband.
Lee Greens issued a desperate statement online this week after sharing that people had continued to hound the family despite them wanting a "quiet life."
Lee's husband, Richard Greens, is the twin brother of Robert Greens, who committed a horrifying attack on a local student near Rosslyn Chapel in 2005.
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Named the Da Vinci rapist due to the chapel's connection to the Da Vinci Code novel, the attack saw the 19-year-old woman sustain serious injuries that were initially believed to have been from a car crash.
Tried in 2006, Robert Greens had attempted to blame the attack on his twin, before he was found guilty and jailed.
Over 15 years later, Lee Greens said that the family and her innocent husband are still being targeted, despite having nothing to do with Robert.
The Record reports that Lee shared a plea online after local rumours surfaced that the vile thug had been released from prison and moved into his brother's home in Hawick.
It came after locals reacted to unconfirmed reports that a sex offender has been rehoused in the area.
Posting online, 42-year-old Lee said: "I am Richard's wife of 25 years. Robert doesn't live here, he lives in the jail.
"Yes, Robert has done wrong, but all Richard has ever done is look like him.
"He is not even allowed in the same town as him. When he gets out we will know, but we don't know anything yet.
"Can everyone stop posting stuff like this? If you have a problem then message me about it.
"My husband is seriously ill. He has not got long left. We don't need this, we just want a quiet life.
"We would like some peace from this hell that has followed us for the last 16 years."
The Scottish Prison Service confirmed on Friday that 44-year-old Greens remains behind bars.
At his High Court trial for the attack in 2006, Robert tried to blame his twin brother Richard, with his lawyer stating in court that both identical twins shared the same DNA but this was rejected by the court.
Afterwards Richard said he had forgiven his brother for trying to blame him, and insisted he would be standing by him.
Speaking at the time, Richard said: "I know what he has done but I will stand by him. I love him to bits."
But he later severed ties with his brother after he visited him in jail and failed to get answers over why he had blamed him for the vicious crime.
Richard said: “I said if he did not give me answers, I would not speak to him again. He did not give me answers and so I have not.”
Six years later, in 2012, Richard Greens told the Daily Record how he was attacked by a vigilante masked gang who held him at gunpoint after mistaking him for his brother.
The dad-of-five said his life has been wrecked by his brother’s brutal crime.
He said: “I wish I could get a new face. I hate him for what he has done to me. I don’t have a life any more.”
He also told how in the months following the rape, he and his wife had to flee one town and they had a petrol bomb lobbed at another home.
He added: “I am watching my back 24/7. I am scared all the time. Everywhere I go, all I hear is ‘beast, beast’."
Wife Lee also added: “Robert’s a predator and I hate him. I really wish he would die.”
Robert Greens was freed from prison in 2012 under the automatic early release system, having served two-thirds of his sentence. But the following year, he was back behind bars after he broke one of the conditions of his release by visiting the home town of his former wife.
He was again released in 2017 but hauled back to prison after another breach of his release conditions
