An army veteran who repeatedly raped a woman and smeared blood on her face during one of the attacks has been jailed for 50 months.
Robert Millar first assaulted his victim at an address in Elgin on June 1 2020 when he seized her by the neck before subjecting her to a repeated rape ordeal.
The 34-year-old struck again on September 23 that year at a flat in the town.
He gripped his victim by the neck and threw the woman against a wall. Her arm was forced up her back and the former soldier smeared blood on her face.
On the same day, Millar threatened to harm himself and cut himself with a knife.
He also damaged a mobile phone belonging to the victim and struck a door with a knife.
‘A number of serious offences’
The judge told Millar at the High Court in Edinburgh: “You have been convicted of a number of serious offences”.
Judge Norman McFadyen said the rape offence was “plainly the most serious” but others were also significant.
Millar, a prisoner in Inverness, was earlier convicted of rape, assault and two charges of threatening or abusive behaviour.
One of the latter offences was committed at the accident and emergency department at Dr Gray’s Hospital in Elgin and also at the town’s police station, where Millar lunged from a bed and struggled with officers and then struck his head against a police van cage door.
The judge told Millar that he would have faced a six year sentence for the rape and assault but that would be reduced to take account of time he served as a remand prisoner.
Millar, from Elgin, was told that on his release he will be under supervision for a three-year period.
Drinking excessively
Defence counsel Bill Adam told the court: “He has always been a worker. He joined the army when 17 and was there for nine and a half years serving his country.
“Since then he has been in a variety of occupations,” Mr Adam said.
He added that Millar continued to maintain his denial of the rape charge.
The defence counsel said that, at the time of the other offences, Millar was drinking excessively.
He told the court: “He will cooperate with any programmes designed to address the risk of further offending”.
Millar was told he will be on the sex offenders’ register for an indeterminate period.
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