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Man raped girl after he dared her to drink vodka
Asex predator encouraged an underage teenager into a drinking competition until she was being sick and blacking out before raping her.
Bryan Wilson, 41, from Dundee, subjected his victim to a painful ordeal and ignored her as she asked him to stop, a court heard.
Advocate depute Derick Nelson told the High Court in Edinburgh: “The accused dared the complainer to drink vodka mixed with Tango orange, telling her it was a drinking competition.”
“At first she said she did not want to drink, but the accused kept encouraging her and eventually she agreed to drink,” said the prosecutor.
Mr Nelson said they shared a large bottle of vodka with the 15-year-old girl consuming about eight glasses.
“She felt heavily intoxicated and dizzy as a result of the alcohol she had consumed.
“She tried to kept falling said.
Wilson then encouraged the girl to sit on his knee at a house in Dundee but she was repeatedly vomiting and having blackouts due to the excessive drink she consumed.
Wilson removed much of the girl’s clothing, said Mr Nelson, adding: “He then either tripped her up or she fell to the floor due to being intoxicated and bumped her head, causing an injury to her right temple and eye area.”
The girl was lying on get up, over,” but he the
floor being sick when Wilson approached her and raped her.
She later blacked out again before waking later in the morning.
When the victim’s mother later learned what had
happened through her daughter she immediately drove her to a police station in Dundee, the court heard.
Unemployed Wilson admitted raping the girl on May 30 last year when she was intoxicated with alcohol and incapable giving consent.
Wilson, who has numerous previous convictions, including for serious assault and attempted murder, also admitted brutalising an adult woman in his home city.
He pled guilty to repeatedly assaulting and raping the 32-year-old woman at houses in Dundee.
Wilson also admitted wilfully ill treating a child in the city who was subjected to abuse from an early age, including sending her a photograph of her teddy bear with a knife in it.
Sentence was deferred for reports and Wilson was placed on the sex offenders register and remanded in custody. of
Dundee mental health bosses must fast-track a 24-hour centre to help young people facing an “unemployment disaster”, a councillor has said.
Labour councillor Michael Marra has written to Dundee City Council chief executive Greg Colgan to share his fears about the “gathering storm” likely to affect the mental health of thousands of young people across the city.
City mental health campaigners believe a 24hour centre – where a person in mental health crisis can go for help without a medical referral – could save lives.
Councillor Marra called on officials to deliver the centre without further delay.
He said: “Recent reports indicate a surge in suicide attempts as Scotland’s mental health crisis gains pace as a result of lockdown and the looming long-term impacts of the pandemic and its restrictions.
“We know – not suspect but know – that we have an unemployment disaster on the way.
“Unemployment spikes typically impact on the young. This time the impact on the young will be even greater as job losses in hospitality and retail will be particularly acute.
“The impact on mental health of the loss of prospects and hope will be huge. We know that we needed a crisis centre before this gathering storm.”
Dundee’s Labour group put demands for the centre at the heart of their budget proposals earlier this month.
Councillor Marra said more than 100 lives had been lost to suicide in the city since MSP Jenny Marra – Mr Marra’s sister – raised the issue with the first minister in 2018.
“You will understand my frustration that in spite of specific instructions the policy is simply not being delivered,” he told Dundee Council’s top official.
Despite cross party political support, there is confusion around the timeline for delivery over such a centre.
Chief social work officer Diane McCulloch last month updated the integration joint board of the city’s health and social care partnership on mental health and substance misuse services.
She addressed the issue of crisis response, including setting up a in the city.
She said there were “good bits and not so good bits” about similar projects already operating in other Scottish cities.
“We want to get this as right as we can,” she told the meeting,
“So part of that work will then be what is that crisis response – is it a centre? Is it a centre and other things? Or is it other things?”
Councillor Marra said: “Every elected member backs a crisis centre yet, to our collective dismay, no crisis centre is being provided.
“Can I ask you to reflect on the proceedings of the integration joint board, the discussion at the budget meeting, and tell me how we can secure this crisis centre for Dundee?”
A council spokeswoman said: “The chief executive will respond to councillor Marra directly.” 24-hour centre
“The impact on mental health will be huge