Rapist who attacked Oban woman is jailed
‘He told me people said he looked a lot like Gordon Ramsay’
A sex attacker who drugged two victims – one of them in Oban – before raping them has been jailed for 12 years.
George Cummings, 55, from Glasgow, boasted to one of his victims that he looked like celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay.
After drinking the wine poured by Cummings, the woman, who was wearing black trousers, a black top and boots, has no memory until she woke up at 3am dressed in a red dress and shoes. She said: ‘I knew I had been drugged with something.’
Cummings was convicted at the High Court in Glasgow of raping a 47-year-old woman in a flat in Langbank, Renfrewshire, on September 22, 1992, and raping a 50-year-old woman in a flat in Oban on January 6, 2016.
His crimes were committed 23 years apart but were chillingly similar.
On Thursday July 12 judge Johanna Johnston QC jailed Cummings for 12 years and ordered that he is supervised for two years on his release.
She said: ‘The complainers spoke to a pattern of conduct by you that bore clear similarities. Each woman was drugged and detained against their will and isolated.’
She said this allowed him to ‘perform violent sexual offences’ on them and ‘humiliate and degrade them’.
Cummings will be on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.
In evidence, the 50-year-old terrified mother told of how Cummings visited her home after they met in Oban.
She said: ‘He told me people said he looked a lot like Gordon Ramsay. I thought, “What have I done?”.’
The woman told the court the first thing Cummings did when he went into her home was to go into her kitchen alone and pour two glasses of Rioja.
She said: ‘I told him I was worried something bad was going to happen and I felt vulnerable and he said, “That’s okay I like my women vulnerable”.
‘I was worried I wasn’t going to see my children again. I just wanted to make it through to the morning and for him to go.’
The woman said she had made it clear to him she was not going to have sex with him.
Cummings’s first victim had her soft drinks spiked first with amphetamine at a bar and then with cocaine in Cummings’s flat in Langbank. He then raped her in the flat. His victim said she felt helpless and added: ‘I told him a couple of times I didn’t want sex, but he just carried on.’
In evidence Cummings, who described himself as a self-employed buyer of commodities and vehicles, denied ever having any more than a kiss and a cuddle with either victim and accused them both of being liars.