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Isla Bryson was found guilty at Glasgow High Court today of carrying out the violent attacks against the two women in 2016 and 2019 while she was living as Adam Graham.

Isla Bryson has been warned she faces a significant sentence.

A transgender woman has been found guilty of raping two women when she was a man.

Isla Bryson, from Clydebank, committed the crimes before she transitioned to female and when she was known by the "dead name" Adam Graham.

A six-day trial at the High Court in Glasgow heard Bryson raped two women, one in Clydebank in 2016 and one in Drumchapel in 2019.

She met both her victims online, with prosecutors saying she "preyed" on vulnerable women.

Bryson denied the charges, telling the court she "would never hurt another human being".

After less than a day of deliberation, a jury found her guilty of both rape charges.

Addressing Bryson in the dock on Tuesday, judge Lord Scott said: "You have been convicted by the jury of two extremely serious charges, those being charges of rape."

He told her the crimes are "considerable" and that "a significant sentence is inevitable".

Bryson's bail was revoked and she has been remanded in custody until February 28 to allow Lord Scott to gather "as much information as possible" on her before deciding her sentencing.

The court heard Bryson was going through the breakdown of an unhappy, brief marriage when she went to stay with her first victim at the victim's mother's house in Clydebank in 2016.

Evidence heard on the night of the rape, Bryson locked the victim's bedroom door which was "unusual."

Giving evidence on pre-recorded video, the victim, 30, said she was raped for half-an-hour.

"All I said was 'no' over and over and over again," she said.

"At the time I was so scared. Sick to the stomach. I just didn't know what was going on."

She said Bryson later threatened her family with harm if she told anyone.

The second victim told the court Bryson continued to have sex with her after she said stop.

Giving evidence via live video-link, the 34-year-old said they met on the social media app Bigo, where Bryson was named DJ Blade at the time.

She said they met days after chatting and the day after first meeting in June 2019, they were at her home in Drumchapel watching soaps.

The victim said her pyjama bottoms were removed by Bryson, who performed a sex act which she consented to, but then she asked Bryson to stop.

The court heard Bryson entered the victim and was told to stop because Bryson was "crushing" the victim.

The victim's police statement said Bryson instead told her to "stay there" because "he (Bryson) wasn't finished".

The victim told the court: "I said to stop but he (Bryson) just kept on going, and that's when I just closed my eyes and I am doing what he wanted to do."

In her own evidence, Bryson claimed both women consented to having sex.

She said she knew she was transgender at the age of four but did not make the decision to transition until she was 29, and is currently taking hormones and seeking surgery to complete gender reassignment.

She said in 2016 she was "struggling with my sexuality and having issues emotionally".

The jury unanimously found Bryson guilty of raping the second victim, with a majority agreeing she raped the first woman.

The court heard Bryson has three "minor" convictions on her record, but none of these required a prison sentence.

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A SEX offender jailed in 2020 for abusing and filming a seven-year-old child has admitted to further crimes committed in Inverclyde during a 27-year period.

Alfred Brown's sordid additional offences came to light while he was serving time for historical abuse against a young girl in Largs, Greenock Sheriff Court was told.

Brown, 64, took, made and had possession of indecent photographs of children on various occasions at an address on Farquhar Road in Port Glasgow between November 1993 and December 2020.

It is understood that a camcorder was used by him during the commission of the offences.

His crimes in Largs spanned a 16-year period.

Sheriff Michael Higgins has called upon prosecutors to supply more information for a narrative of the facts in the Port Glasgow case before proceeding to sentence Brown, who has now moved to Clydebank.

The decision comes after the sheriff was provided with a victim impact statement.

Sheriff Higgins said: "There is no named individual either in the narrative [of the facts] or in the charges, so I have no way of knowing if this person [who submitted the impact statement] is involved in the charges.

"I don't think that the Crown narrative is sufficient in detail.

"On that basis I'm going to continue these matters for this to be addressed.

"I think that is essential."

Brown was jailed at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court in August 2020.

The pervert — who is a musician — featured in the pages of the Telegraph's sister paper, the Largs News, in 2011 after joining band called 'The Sharps' and was known locally as Alfie Brown.

He used filming equipment to record his young victim and repeatedly compelled her to expose her underwear to him.

Brown also captured footage of the primary school pupil while she was asleep and while he indecently touched her.

As well as 17-month prison term backdated to March 2020, he was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register for ten years.

His lawyer, Paul Keenan, said: "During his period of imprisonment police found more, previously unseen, footage and this was due to the scale of the investigation."

Sheriff Higgins has deferred sentence on Brown and continued the case for a proof in mitigation to address the victim impact statement matter until December 19.

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A FORMER youth football child protection officer who downloaded child abuse images has been given more unpaid work in the community.

Ryan Cullen, of Greenwood Quadrant in Linnvale, was spared a prison sentence in 2019 after he admitted two charges relating to the creation and possession of indecent images of children between June 2015 and November 2018.

He was put on a three-year community payback order (CPO) with supervision by social workers, and 250 hours of unpaid work in the community.

He was put on the sex offenders register for three years the same length of time he was accessing abusive pictures and videos.

But on August 27, Dumbarton Sheriff Court was told that 27-year-old Cullen had breached the conditions of his community-based sentence when he took on work without informing his supervising officers.

Defence solicitor Brian McGuire said his client was the last person I would have expected to come back with a breach.

But the court heard Cullens mother had asked her son to assist with some work as a favour.

He was paid, but gave the cash back.

He has been a worker all his days, so the opportunity to assist was quite welcome, said Mr McGuire.

He didnt think he was doing anything untoward.

The anxiety as a result of this has been apparent to me. His mother lost her employment as a result of this, no doubt as a result of the adverse publicity.

The solicitor urged Sheriff William Gallacher not to revoke the existing CPO and to spare Cullen a jail sentence.

Sheriff Gallacher said: I accept what I hear. It ought not to have happened.

The notion anyone subject to any order can never contribute to the community is wrong, and all orders by the court are to return people to the community where that can be safely done.

He allowed the CPO to continue, but added 75 more hours of unpaid work, to be completed within six months.

Before undertaking any voluntary or paid work, Cullen must discuss it with his supervising officer.

The sheriff added: I dont expect to see you again.

In 2019, the Post reported that the Scottish Youth Football Association (SYFA) was looking into the case because of Cullens past role with the Dunbartonshire Youth Football Development League (DYFDL).

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A judge told control freak Kevin Adiar "You were, are and will remain a danger to any woman".

A rapist who inflicted a catalogue of hurt, misery and degradation on women has been jailed for nine years after treating victims like "a cat playing with a mouse".

Kevin Adair, 34, was found guilty of a catalogue of sexual and violent offences against five former partners last month.

At a sentencing hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh on Wednesday, a judge told Adair: "You were, are and will remain a danger to any woman with whom you have a relationship and perhaps women at large."

Michael O'Grady QC said: "I therefore require not only to punish you for the hurt, misery and degradation you have visited upon the complainers but also, so far as this court can, to afford some measure of protection to women who may encounter you in the future, albeit the distant future."

The judge imposed a further six year term on Adair when he will be under supervision and on licence.

He told Adair: "This in my view is necessary given the risk you represent."

Judge O'Grady said that a background report prepared on the rapist revealed that he accepted little responsibility for his crimes and showed "neither insight nor remorse".

Adair, formerly of Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, assaulted five women and subjected two to sex attacks, including rape, between 2004 and 2014.

His first victim was flicked and punched on the face by him and molested on various occasion before being subjected to a serious indecent assault at a house in Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire, a week before Christmas in 2007 during which he restrained her.

During an earlier trial when he denied a string of charges the court heard that Adair called her names and checked her intimately to make sure she was not cheating on him.

He was described as a "very controlling" man but one who could also be "very charming".

Another woman was headbutted and kicked on the body in an attack in Dumbarton in 2005.

The sex abuser hounded a third victim, bombarding her with texts checking on her whereabouts and attacked her at a flat in Helensburgh, in Argyll and Bute, in 2011. He pushed her on the body resulting in her falling down stairs.

A fourth victim was subjected to assaults by Adair at addresses in Greenock, Inverclyde. She was punched in the face while she held a baby and was grabbed by the throat and pinned against a wall and slapped and kicked.

Jurors heard that the scared woman lied to the police and a midwife to cover up her ordeal at the hands of Adair.

Adair subjected his last victim to a rape ordeal at a flat in Greenock days before Christmas in 2014 when he took off her clothing and carried out sex acts on her.

He told the woman that he would not delete naked photos of her from his mobile phone unless she had intercourse with him.

Prosecutor Duncan McPhie told jurors: "She understood that he had photographs of her - compromising photographs. She told you that she had sex with Adair only in return for him deleting them from his phone. You might think that he had a hold over her because of these photographs."

Judge O'Grady said: "In some aspects of his behaviour it was akin to watching a cat playing with a mouse."

Defence counsel Mark Stewart QC said Adair had never previously served a prison sentence and added: "He understands the court will impose a substantial custodial sentence."

Detectives have thanked Adair's victims for their bravery in testifying against him.

Detective Sergeant Iain Renfrew, from the Domestic Abuse Taskforce (West), said: "Kevin Adair is an extremely dangerous individual who poses a real threat to women.

"He subjected five former partners to horrific abuse and it is only as a result of their bravery that he is finally facing the consequences of his actions.

"I would like to thank the victims for coming forward and helping us unravel the true extent of Adair's crimes and helping us ensure he is not free to harm other women.

"Adair may have thought he was untouchable and that none of his victims would ever have the courage to speak out - but he was very wrong.

"With the support of our specialist officers in the Domestic Abuse Taskforce and other services, they stood up and testified against him in court and helped bring us to today's conclusion.

"I would urge anyone suffering domestic abuse, or who may have concerns about a friend or family member, to contact Police Scotland via 101 and we will do everything in our power to bring perpetrators to justice."