MONSTROUS
Two dead in crashes Serial rapist’s brave victim speaks out to secure predator’s conviction after 8-year reign of terror
FLYING foxes are weird enough looking – and then one sticks its tongue out.
The cheeky chap pulled a pose for a photographer after taking a cooling dip in a TWO young men have been killed in separate three-vehicle crashes.
A 25-year-old driver died in hospital after his Honda Civic collided with a van and a lorry near Dunblane on Thursday.
It happened at the Keir roundabout on the A9 at 6.25pm.
A 21-year-old biker died after his Honda CB600 collided with a car and a taxi on Balmore Road in Lambhill, Glasgow, at 5.20pm on Thursday. lake. The fruit bats swoop into the water a few times each day from the trees surrounding Uppr Lake in Bhopal, India.
They bellyflop in then “hang up to dry” on their 5ft-wde wings.
Flying foxes are warm-blooded mammals and can die of dehydration when the heat hits 45C. A BRAVE victim of a serial rapist has branded her attacker “a complete monster”.
Neil Ireland is facing a long sentence after being found guilty of raping three women over eight years.
He repeatedly sexually assaulted a fourth woman.
One of his victims was raped twice while in bed with her child – and again while eight months pregnant.
Twisted Ireland, 39, claimed another victim fantasised about being forced into sex and he took part “reluctantly”.
But jurors found him guilty of eight rapes between January 2008 and December 2015 after a two-week trial at the High Court in Dunfermline.
The offences took place in Cupar, Methil and Leven.
The judge described it as “a particularly unpleasant and distasteful case”.
It emerged Ireland, of Methil, preyed on vulnerable women when they were going through difficult times. One woman said she had a drink and drugs problem after coming out of a violent relationship.
She knew Ireland from her local pub and he began taking alcohol to her home and giving her money to buy drugs.
She said she had regarded Ireland as a friend but repeatedly told him she did not want to have a physical relationship with him.
The woman told the court that she passed out on her sofa after a drinking session and woke up to find Ireland raping her. She said: “I thought he was my friend. He turned out to be a complete monster.”
She also described Ireland as “a disgusting person”.
In his evidence, Ireland claimed this woman wanted to be raped. His solicitor asked him: “Did you on any occasion rape her?”
He replied: “Only by her wanting it. That was a fantasy of hers.”
Ireland threatened another victim that if she did not have sex with him he would tell police she had breached her bail conditions and she would end up in jail. Ireland, a forklift driver and former cabbie in St Andrews, was found guilty of six charges of sexual assault including eight separate rape incidents.
Lord Uist told him: “You have been convicted by the jury of a series of very grave sexual offences. You must expect a very lengthy period of imprisonment.”
Detective Inspector Jim Leeson, of Fife’s domestic abuse investigation unit, welcomed the conviction.
He said: “Neil Ireland is a sexual predator who targeted vulnerable women he calculated would not speak out against him.
“It is thanks to their courage in coming forward and testifying against him that we have secured this conviction.
“I hope this conviction will bring them some sense of closure.”
I thought he was my friend. He turned out to be a complete monster
VICTIM