A sex beast has been hit with a 10-year sentence for the violent rapes of two underage girls.
Dylan Elliot, 25, has also been placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for life for targeting the youngsters when they were just 14 and 15.
The predator, who is also known as Dylan McCreadie, was only free to commit the offences as he had been released early from jail terms imposed for other crimes.
And he denied all wrongdoing over his two-year reign of terror, forcing the girls to give evidence against him at his trial.
He targeted his first victim in Greenock, Inverclyde, in 2018, when she was 14 and he was 21.
In a common close near to the town's Oak Mall shopping centre, he exposed himself to her and performed a sex act on himself.
On another occasion he performed a sex act on her without her consent, again within a close near to the shopping centre.
And in June 2018, at a property in the town, he repeatedly raped her.
He grabbed her and forced her face down on a bed before pinning her down, restraining her and raping her.
He then made her return to the bedroom and raped her again.
In February 2020 he abused his second victim, when she was 15 and he was 23.
He sexually assaulted her by repeatedly trying to kiss her on the face and touch her on the body at a house in the town.
And later the same day he raped the girl within the same property, by pushing her down onto the bed, holding her down and tearing her clothes off.
At the High Court in Paisley yesterday, Defence QC Brian McConnachie said Elliot had endured a tough upbringing which had left him emotionally scarred.
He added: "He started to get into trouble at a really early age and that cycle of offending has not, as yet, been broken."
Temporary Judge Douglas A Brown said: "The offences to which you were convicted are plainly serious.
"These were sexual crimes against girls aged only 14 when you were 21, and includes a charge of repeated rape.
"You were also convicted of sexual crimes, include rape, of a girl aged 15, when you were 23.
"The gravity of the offences can only adequately be reflected by a substantial period of imprisonment."
He pointed out that the crimes against both girls had been committed a short time after Elliot, of Port Glasgow, had been released early from other jail terms.
And he said he was taking into account Elliot's violent nature, shown by the fact he committed and assault and was caught with a weapon while locked up over the rapes.
He told Elliot he would be on the Sex Offenders' Register indefinitely, jailed him for eight years and made him the subject of a two-year Extended Sentence.
That will see him monitored in the community when released from prison, in a bid to protect the public.
And he placed him on 10-year-long Non-Harassment Orders which see him banned from approaching or contacting his victims.
Victims' relatives clapped and shouted "beast" at Elliot as he was led away in handcuffs to begin his sentence.
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