Six years for rapist who attacked two teenagers

High-risk offender assaulted his first victim when he was 17

A high-risk rapist from Tayside was detained for six years yesterday after attacking two teenagers in separate assaults.

Jordan Dunn first struck when he was aged 17 and carried out a second rape when he was 19 years old.

A judge told Dunn at the High Court in Edinburgh: “Although you are only 20 years of age your record of offending is already a cause for serious concern.”

Lady Carmichael pointed out that he had already been convicted of sexual offences involving older children.

The judge said that in discussions with a social worker preparing a background report on him he had used “insulting and derogatory language” about his latest victims.

Lady Carmichael said that tended to reinforce an impression of Dunn as “a young man with a troubling and distorted attitude to older girls and young women”.

She told him: “I accept immaturity and insecurity play a part in your presentation and in your offending and you may be assisted to overcome this by work undertaken in custody.”

The judge said she had reduced his sentence to six years from seven to take account of time he spent on remand.

She also ordered that he be kept under supervision for a further four-year period when he can be returned to custody if he breaches licence conditions.

Lady Carmichael said that because of Dunn’s previous offending, his latest crimes and an assessment of him as posing a high risk of re-offending she was satisfied that the normal licence period would not be sufficient for protection of the public from serious harm.

Dunn had originally faced five charges, including further allegations of rape and threatening or abusive behaviour at his flat in Swallowtail Court, Dundee, but was convicted of two rape offences after an earlier trial.

His first sex attack took place at a house in Blairgowrie, in Perthshire, in the summer of 2015 on a victim aged 17.

Dunn struck again on May 11 last year when he attacked a 19-year-old in Dundee and raped her after trying to kiss her, pushing her and struggling with her.

Mr Stewart said that Dunn was “somewhat isolated” and had been subjected to bullying at school.

The defence counsel said that as Dunn was aged 17 when he committed the first rape he was still a child at the time.

He told the court that Dunn accepted “a significant custodial sentence” would be imposed on him for the offences.

Dunn was placed on the sex offenders register.

Police Scotland welcomed the sentence and praised Dunn’s victims.

Detective Inspector Keith Duncan said: “I would like to pay tribute and thank the women who had the strength to report these traumatic offences to the police. Their courage during the inquiry and subsequent proceedings has enabled the case to be brought before the court and has led to the sentence delivered today.”

“I would like to pay tribute and thank the women who had the strength to report these traumatic offences to the police