Medic to check out park rapist

The group kept going during its last session with online meetings.

But it is looking forward to a full programme of speakers, workshops, discussion and competitions between now and the annual awards ceremony in April.

The Angus club has been running for more than six years and meets every second Wednesday evening.

A MAN who abducted and raped a student in a terrifying attack in Dundee is to be examined by a top doctor to assess the extent of his learning difficulties.

Mohammed Chugtai was convicted of pulling his victim towards a wooded area in Caird Park with the intent of committing a sexual offence against the teenager around 14 years ago.

A jury heard evidence that he detained her against her will, brandished a stone towards her and pinned her against a tree before touching her breasts, putting his hands down her lower clothing and groping her private parts.

After committing a sex act in her presence, Chugtai asked the young woman for sex and pinned her on the ground, before pulling down her lower clothing and raping her.

Chugtai, 31, of William Street, Dundee, pled not guilty to a series of offences but was convicted by the jury of carrying out the rape between November 2005 and May 2008, when his victim was aged between 16 and 18.

He was told that his name would be added to the sex offenders register with immediate effect.

During the trial the jury was shown screenshots of text messages exchanged between the complainer and the accused 10 years after the alleged incident.

In one, the woman told Chugtai she believed she had been raped during the attack.

He replied saying “sorry”, but his defence case was based on the premise he was sorry she had been raped – not that he was apologising for raping her.

When Chugtai appeared for sentence at the High Court in Livingston yesterday, his defence counsel Mark Stewart said the criminal justice social work report into his client’s background had raised issues about the extent and nature of the accused’s learning disability.

He said it would be appropriate for the court to have those difficulties assessed by a psychologist and the findings to be included in a supplementary social work report.

Judge Lord Harrower said a forensic psychologist with NHS Tayside, named in the social work report, should carry out the assessment.

He told Chugtai to return for sentencing at Edinburgh High Court on February 10.

The judge continued his bail in the meantime.

Accused Mohammed Chugtai.