A dangerous predator who preys on girls
Victim attempted to take her own life
A YOUNG woman who woke up to find a friend raping her has branded him a “dangerous predator” who preys on vulnerable girls.
Peter Muir was jailed last December at the High Court in Edinburgh but can only be pictured now after court action for other offences against him concluded.
The 23-year-old was sentenced to five years in prison, with an additional two years on licence, after being found guilty of raping two young girls and having unlawful sex with a third.
One of his victims, who considered Muir to be a friend, told the Record how her life was turned upside down after she woke up to find him attacking her.
She was just 16 at the time and tried to take her own life as a result of the trauma she suffered at the hands of the pervert.
The woman, now 22, fears Muir, who went to a school south of Glasgow, may have attacked more girls who have yet to come forward.
She said: “He was friends with some of my friends but he first started talking to me on Facebook. We were friends for quite a long time – around two years – before it happened.
“It was a school day but I had skipped it that day to go to his house to watch football.
“He was drinking a bit but I wasn’t. I started feeling really tired and he told me I could go for a sleep in his bedroom.
“But when I woke up, he was raping me. I told him to stop but he wouldn’t and it just continued for quite a while. He’s a dangerous predator who preys on young girls.
“The next day, I told my boyfriend at the time what had happened but he was away on holiday so there wasn’t much he could do.
“I started going downhill from there and got really depressed. In 2018,
I ended up in a mental hospital because I had tried to kill myself.
“When I found out that he had been found guilty, I just felt so happy and relieved that he was now away in prison and he can’t hurt anyone else.” The woman became suspicious that she wasn’t the only victim – and her concerns proved true when Muir was convicted of raping another young girl and having unlawful sex with third, who he had met through Snapchat.
Muir was found to be at risk of reoffending and was told he had an “attitude of sexual entitlement”.
Lord Boyd said: “You have been found guilty after trial of the rape of two young women, unlawful sexual intercourse with one of them and unlawful sexual intercourse with a third underage girl.
“When you were 16 years of age, you formed a relationship with a 13-year-old girl you met at a church youth camp.
“When you were 19 years old, you had consensual sexual intercourse with a 14-yearold girl who was drunk at the time. These offences will have had a lasting effect on your victims.”
I am relieved he is away and can’t hurt anyone else VICTIM ON MUIR’S FIVE-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE