A high-risk sex offender repeatedly raped a terrified woman after forcing her off the street.
Daniel Welsh pounced on the 25 year-old stranger as she walked to meet a friend for dinner in Aberdeen in February this year.
Welsh forced the woman to have sex during a 90-minute ordeal, having earlier left his pregnant girlfriend at home.
The 22 year-old admitted a charge of abduction and rape at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday.
It later emerged he was already a convicted sex offender, and was being monitored by an offender management unit in Aberdeen, having been assessed as “very high risk”.
He had also twice breached a court, banning him from going near girls under-17.
Prosecutors are now moving for him to be handed a life sentence when he returns to the dock in September.
The court heard his victim had gone to meet a friend on the evening of February 3 this year, while Welsh had spent the day smoking and playing his XBox before telling his 17 year-old girlfriend he was going to the shops to “cool off”.
The woman was walking in Urquhart Road, Aberdeen when she was grabbed from behind.
Welsh told her: “Don’t do anything stupid because I am going to shoot you”, then forced her to walk with him.
He then took her into an isolated area of a nearby cemetery and told her he had been due to get married in two weeks, but his bride-to-be had killed herself.
The terrified victim begged to leave, but this sent Welsh into a rage and he demanded that she strip then raped her.
Welsh then forced her to walk with him again to a bird observatory about 30 minutes away, where he forced her to have sex with him again on three more occasions.
He eventually told his victim to get dressed and walked with her to Aberdeen’s Pittodrie Stadium before fleeing.
The victim went home and immediately texted a friend to say she had been raped.
Meanwhile, Welsh returned home and complained to his girlfriend that he had a sore head before cleaning his clothes and sticking his trainers in the washing machine.
His partner noticed the next morning that he had checked on the internet to read about an attack that happened the night before.
Welsh was eventually found by police at his sister’s house, but made no comment about the rape.
A risk assessment will be carried out on him before he is sentenced, which could lead to an Order for Lifelong Restriction.
Describing the woman’s ordeal, Judge Lady Rae told him: “I have nothing much to say today except that horrific is too mild a word for the set of circumstances I have heard.”
