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A “merciless and cynical sexual predator” who raped two vulnerable men has been jailed for eight years.
Gavin Shand, forty five, attacked one victim because the person slept and raped yet some other in a tent on the banks of the River Clyde who changed into under the impact of heroin.
A resolve recommended Shand he changed into a “merciless and cynical sexual predator”.
Michael O’Grady KC added: “You’ve a nostril for a vulnerable victim and an survey for a chance.”
Shand attacked his first victim, who changed into in his 60s, at a home in Inverness at some level between January and August 2022.
The person changed into snoozing and incapable of giving or withholding consent.
The victim recommended a carer who visited him at his home that he had woken to receive Shand raping him.
He acknowledged Shand recommended him: “I do know you compulsory it.”
Shand also uncovered himself when he changed into at the home and asked the victim to perform oral sex on him.
‘I attempted to push him support off me’
The 2nd victim met Shand in Glasgow in August 2022.
He acknowledged Shand changed into taking a gaze for a reputation to utilize medication whereas he compulsory someone to support him receive a repair.
The victim, who changed into in his 30s, acknowledged he thought he changed into “fortunate” at the time of the likelihood uncover and equipped to rob him to a “junkie den”.
He acknowledged he handed out after being injected with heroin and got here round to receive Shand titillating in a sex act on him.
He acknowledged: “I attempted to push him support off me.”
Shand applied the sex attack and rape on the person in a tent on the south embankment of the River Clyde conclude to Glasgow Sheriff Court.
The victim described how Shand equipped him money and medication to retain silent about the sexual assault.
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Shand denied a series of costs all the plot by an earlier trial but changed into found guilty of two rapes, two sex offences and attempting to defeat the ends of justice.
A background chronicle famend that Shand, who continues to disclaim responsibility, has proven no remorse or suppose.
He changed into sentenced at the Excessive Court in Edinburgh on Thursday.
To boot to the eight-three hundred and sixty five days detention center timeframe, he’ll also be positioned under supervision for a extra four years once released support into the neighborhood.
Shand changed into also added to the sex offenders’ register.
Defence counsel John Brannigan recommended the court that Shand’s lifestyles had been blighted by addiction complications but changed into assessed as appropriate for an culprit programme aimed at making modifications.
Mr Brannigan permitted that custody changed into the inevitable disposal in the case, with the resolve replying: “We can both agree on that.”
