Ice hockey player jailed over ‘terrifying’ attack

An ice hockey player who left a traumatised 27-year-old woman fearing she was going to die during a terrifying sex attack has been jailed for four years.

Colin Grimason, 26, dragged his victim into an alley in Dumfries in May last year. Her underwear was ripped in two in the assault in which Grimason grabbed her neck and throttled her.

She was sexually assaulted and ended up on the ground.

Grimason, who played for Irish side Belfast Prowlers, was in the town at the time for a tournament.

He was also the youngest crew commander in the history of the Northern Ireland fire service and worked as a mechanic.

Grimason, who continues to deny the sex attack, said in evidence he had no idea why the woman would make up such a “wicked lie”. But the jury did not believe him and Grimason was convicted of sexual assault after trial.

Lord Armstrong yesterday told Grimason at the High Court in Glasgow: “You have been convicted of a particularly serious sexual attack on an unsuspecting young woman, who was unknown to you.”

Grimason was placed on the sex offenders’ offender.