The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Serial rapist awaits fate
Asex attacker whose victims claimed he surfed the dark web and spiked their drinks was warned he could face a life sentence.
Dane Lundie, 37, subjected four women to rape ordeals as he targeted vulnerable victims for degrading treatment.
Lundie, who has previous convictions for violence and sexual crimes, menaced victims with a cut-throat razor and a hunting knife.
A judge ordered that an expert should prepare a full risk assessment report on Lundie, which can lead to the making of an order for lifelong restriction (OLR).
Under an OLR, the court fixes a minimum jail term, but any future release is determined by parole authorities.
Judge Fiona Tait said the risk criteria may be met and adjourned sentencing until August for the preparation of the report.
Defence solicitor advocate Iain Paterson had urged the judge to deal with Lundie at yesterday’s appearance in the High Court in Edinburgh by imposing a determinate sentence with a further period of supervision.
He argued “adequate punishment, retribution and deterrence” could be imposed under such an extended sentence.
Lundie had earlier denied a string of charges at a trial, but was convicted of 12 offences, including rape, assault to danger of life, abduction and threatening and abusive behaviour.
One victim was subjected to an invasive indecent assault after Lundie decided to carry out a “drug search” on her in front of another victim of his sexual violence.
The witness later told police that she remembered him doing “something disgusting” to the woman, which she was “struggling to put into words”.
The woman who was subjected to the search was scared and asking him to stop, but he continued.
She said Lundie did not find any drugs on his victim.
In 2018, while living in Kinross, he targeted two women in the town.
One, now aged 23, said Lundie was supplying her with drugs, including heroin, Valium and crack cocaine.
He began raping her when she was sleeping.
She told the court: “He was into weird stuff, like the dark web.”
She said he was controlling and manipulative and she believed he was viewing “banned” sex videos.
She said she suspected Lundie spiked drinks of hot chocolate he supplied to her as she felt drowsy and would go to sleep.
The court heard when police searched his flat in Kinross in June 2018 when he was abusing his final victim, they recovered three samurai swords.
Lundie began offending in Perth in 2013 when he was living at an address in Collinson View. Between January that year and November the following year, he raped two women.
One victim, aged 30, said he was very aggressive and controlling.
She suffered a black eye and bruises from beatings by Lundie.
She said after Lundie sexually assaulted her, he was “laughing about it” and added: “I was just crying.
“I felt disgusted and sad.” The woman said he held a knife to her throat and told the court: “I thought he was going to kill me.”
He also used dressing gown ties to truss her up.
“He said he was going to set my legs on fire,” she said.
Lundie held a lit lighter close to her limbs.