A vile predator from Airdrie who preyed on a woman after claiming to be a Good Samaritan has been convicted of rape and indecent assault.
Edward Young, 34, took advantage of the woman after walking her home from the flat he shared with his then partner in August 2012.
Young had previously raped a former girlfriend and before that carried out a sex attack on a woman when he was just 13 years old.
He was convicted of the crimes – which occurred between 1999 and 2012 – following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
His victim in 2012 – a 46 year-old woman who had earlier fallen ill – was only aware something may have happened to her when she woke up naked the next morning.
She recalled feeling "unusually" sick after drinking some Rose wine.
At the High Court in Glasgow last week, the woman told prosecutor Tony Graham QC: "I do not remember leaving... absolutely no recollection.
"The next memory I have is waking up the next day in my house."
She felt "not right" and that something sexual may have happened.
The woman immediately got in contact with her partner, who recalled her being "upset and crying".
He told her to call the police.
DNA linked Young to being at the flat. He claimed the woman had been "fine" and consensually agreed to having sex with him twice that night.
Young said he had earlier walked the victim back to her house from his late at night.
His lawyer, Paul Nelson., put to him: "People may think you are a bit of a rat having sex with a woman while your partner was at home."
Young responded: "I accept that."
He knew he had "done the dirty" on his now ex.
But, prosecutors instead said Young had "taken a liberty" with the vulnerable mum.
Young had earlier raped a previous girlfriend – then a teenager – in January 2004.
This victim told jurors: "I said I did not want to do this, but he said it would be alright and I would be OK."
Deviant Young was only a schoolboy when he was first struck in late 1999.
A woman was lying in bed next to her child when she became aware of being touched inappropriately.
She told the trial: "I threw myself out of bed and he said: "Are you OK?'
"I was saying: 'What are you doing here?' He was like a rabbit in the headlights."
Young had denied the charges.
He was convicted of two rape charges and a separate crime of indecent assault.
Judge Lorna Drummond QC remanded him in custody pending sentencing next month in Edinburgh.
