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SCI-FI SICKO GUILTY OF RAPING MUM AND GIRL

Vile author’s 21-year reign of terror ended when daughter told mother he attacked her from age 15

- WILMA RILEY reporters@dailyrecor­d.co.uk

A SCI-FI novelist was yesterday convicted of raping a woman and her daughter. Peter Logan, 45, from Glasgow, carried out the sickening attacks over a 21-year period in the city and in Carnoustie, Angus. He was finally brought to justice after the daughter confided in her mother that Logan had raped her for four years, starting when she was just 15, the High Court in Glasgow heard. The mum confronted Logan and both women went to the police. In court, the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told prosecutor Shanti McGuire the author repeatedly raped her between 1993 and 2010. She said he also slapped her face, grabbed her by the arms and body and dragged her by the hair, threatened to kill her and repeatedly threw her to the ground.

The mother, who is in her 40s, told the court: “He called me a neandertha­l, a monkey, an imbecile and a degenerate.”

The court heard Logan forced her to have sex.

When she told him no, he replied: “I have needs.”

She added: “I was telling him to please stop but he didn’t.”

She told the court that Logan would drink and become violent.

The woman added: “I told him I was going to phone the police, but he told me nobody would believe me because I was a degenerate.”

Her daughter was raped by Logan between 2010, when she was 15, and 2014.

He also grabbed her by the throat, slapped her, bit her body and made indecent remarks.

The daughter said in evidence that she didn’t know how to react when Logan raped her.

She said: “I was shocked. I was quiet and withdrawn but I didn’t want to tell anyone.”

When she was raped again, she said: “I pretended to be asleep. I had no idea what else to do.”

Prosecutor Maguire said: “Peter Logan carried out violent rapes accompanie­d by name calling. He would not take no for an answer.”

Logan, who did not give evidence in court, claimed the women were liars and denied all the charges against him.

His novel Pen is set in Scotland and is about a 20-year-old woman who suffers sleep paralysis. The book is subtitled Trouble Sleeping? You Will Have.

Defence counsel Jennifer Bain said: “He is a published author and suffers from agoraphobi­a.”

Judge Lord Kinclaven deferred sentence on Logan until next month at the High Court in Glasgow for background reports.

He said: “A custodial sentence is now inevitable and you will be remanded in custody.”

Logan waved and gave a thumbs-up to family members in court as he was led away to the cells.

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