RAPIST CAGED AFTER 40-YEAR REIGN OF TERROR
Predator laughed as he attacked victims
A SEX beast who laughed as he raped women and abused children was convicted of a 40-year reign of terror yesterday.
Predatory Angus Robertson, 68, sexually abused two girls, raped two women and beat two boys, kicking one of them with steel-toed boots.
Robertson, from Greenock, was found guilty of
His victims were living in fear and under his control for many years STUART HOUSTON
17 offences, dating from 1972 to 2013 after a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
Last night, he was behind bars after he was remanded in custody to await sentence at a later date.
The court was told he raped one woman who had learning difficulties repeatedly, mocking her as she tried to fight him off.
He regularly beat another rape victim, mentally torturing her with sick names and taunts about a medical condition. Sheena Fraser, prosecuting, said Robertson was a “sexual predator” who targeted the vulnerable.
She said: “When they protested at his behaviour, he just laughed at them.
“He targeted young girls and even when they said no, he carried on, even when they struggled, he carried on in his devastating course of conduct towards them.
“He did sexually what he wanted to, with women under his control.” The court heard that the retired welder was relentless in his pursuit of one female victim, sexually and physically abusing her between the ages of four and 17.
He exposed himself and crept into her bedroom to assault her, leaving her pornographic magazines and using filthy and sectarian language to intimidate her.
Fraser told the jury: “It happened to her again and again.
“He laughed at her as she was screaming and shouting for him to get off. He ridiculed her and called her a slut.”
When the girl was 10, her tormentor beat her, battering her across the head and punching her body. When she was a teenager, he slammed her into a glass door.
He sexually abused another girl when she was 10 and in one attack pinned her against a wall by the throat.
From 1996 to 2013, he repeatedly raped and beat a woman, leaving her with horrendous injuries.
He kicked and punched her head and body, jumped on her, attempted to strangle her, pulled her hair out, spat in her face and constantly insulted her, telling her she was ugly and worthless.
On one occasion, she was pushed on top of nails and tools on a workshop bench and raped by Robertson.
The court heard the victim’s young child heard her “screaming and squealing in pain” during one vicious assault.
From 2011 to 2013, Robertson raped the woman with learning difficulties on numerous occasions, forcing her to watch pornographic videos and carry out sex acts on him.
He attacked and mentally abused the young boys for a decade from 2001.
One boy was only seven when he was kicked with the steel-toed boots.
Stuart Houston, of Police Scotland’s National Rape Task Force, said officers had traced historic victims after one of the women reported him in 2013.
He said: “His victims were living in fear and under his control over many years. It was only when we approached them and they were no longer under his control that they felt free to speak out. They showed great courage. “We want to assure victims who may have been afraid to report something at the time that they will be listened to.”