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stopped to check her tyre, within 40 seconds you were beside her and offered to pump up her tyre.
“After a further 30 seconds, you produced from your pocket a sliver of broken glass.”
Judge Maciver said that Ciornei should be compulsorily returned to Romania at the end of his sentence.
The court was told the girl’s ordeal only ended when Ciornei, who denied rape, demanded money and she managed to gesture to the bag she had on her back.
When he grabbed it off her, she managed to break free and run for help.
The victim has suffered ongoing and enduring emotional trauma, the court heard.
Ciornei was unanimously found guilty of the rape, which happened on August 7, 2016. The schoolgirl said in evidence she cycled to Asda to buy sweets and chained her bike outside. She saw Ciornei sitting nearby.
When she returned to her bike, she noticed it had a flat tyre and walked it to the nearby Iceland supermarket car park to inspect it.
She told prosecutor Iain McSporran QC that Ciornei who was wearing a “really distinctive hat” gestured that she needed a pump to inflate the tyre.
She said she didn’t think he spoke English. He put her bike on the ground and took the dust cap off the tyre and put it in his pocket.
She said: “When he put the dust cap in his pocket, he pulled out a mediumsized piece of glass. It was brown and quite jagged. “He then put the glass up to my throat, he grabbed my hair and then he gestured for me to go to the bushes.” Asked why she went in, the witness said: “Because I was scared.” She described being raped and “moaning or whimpering” in a bid to have him understand she didn’t want anything to happen. After raping her he “gestured for money”, she said. When Ciornei “forced” her bag off her back, she broke free and ran. CCTV footage viewed by the jury had shown Ciornei “directing or pushing” the girl into the bushes before disappearing after her.
Seven minutes later, they emerged and she was seen breaking free from him and fleeing.
Ciornei, who gave evidence through an interpreter, claimed he followed her pushing her bike “intending to steal it” but it had a flat tyre.
He admitted kissing the girl on the mouth.
Ciornei, who worked as a shepherd in his home village, only arrived in Scotland on July 19, 2016, and stayed with family members in Barrhead.
Defence counsel Geoff Forbes said that Ciornei maintains he did not rape the girl.
Forbes said: “He is a first offender. Standing the verdict of the jury, there is nothing I can say.”
He added that Ciornei wanted to return to Romania on completion of his sentence.