‘Depraved’ man who raped feminine physician in 40-minute metropolis centre doorway assault is jailed
A “depraved” man who raped a female doctor for 40 minutes in a doorway of a city centre alley has been jailed for nine years.
Mihae-Nicolae Patran, 34, assaulted the then 27-year-old stranger as she took a short cut through Mitchell Street in Glasgow early on the morning of November 26 2023.
After the rape the victim, who did not know Patran, managed to flee naked from the waist down.
Patran was convicted of the rape last month following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
He was also found guilty of exposing himself to a woman and performing a sex act upon himself on a train between Perth and Stirling on October 22 2023, and of sexually assaulting a female in a court room that autumn.
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Judge McFadyen said of the rape victim: “She took a shortcut through the alleyway where you were intending to bed down in a doorway and she had the misfortune to encounter you there.
“We know from the CCTV and mobile phone which captured a little of what happened and the length of the episode that she was subjected in that doorway to a protracted, demeaning and squalid rape over 40 minutes.”
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