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CAR RAPE MONSTER IS JAILED

Seven years for leisure centre fiend

- BY WILMA RILEY reporters@dailyrecor­d.co.uk

A LEISURE centre attendant who raped a woman after detaining her in his car was yesterday jailed for seven years.

Sean Patrick, 30, from Paisley, also sexual ly abused another seven women.

The of fences were committed at various addresses in Paisley and Johnstone between June 2013 and August 2018.

At the High Court in Glasgow, judge Lord Harrower told Patrick that his offences required a substantia­l sentence.

Lord Harrower also placed Patrick on the sex offenders register.

Defence QC Thomas

Ross said: “Mr Patrick continues to maintain his innocence.”

Patrick, who worked as a leisure attendant in Renfrewshi­re, abducted his victim against her will and then raped her in a car at Candren Road, Paisley, on an occasion between May 15 and 31, 2016.

He then sent her sexually explicit comments between July and August 2016 with the intention of obtaining sexual gratificat­ion or humiliatin­g and distressin­g her.

Patrick admitted giving the woman a lift in his car, but denied raping her.

The court heard that Pa t r i c k also sent photograph­s of a penis to five of his victims.

He also sexually abused and made sexual remarks to his victims.

Patrick placed a vacuum cleaner nozzle against one woman’s buttocks and on another occasion placed his hand between her legs.

With another victim, he touched her breasts and pulled at her underwear.

Patrick was also found guilty of detaining a woman against her will at an address in Johnstone in June 2013.

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