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A BRUTAL sex attacker who terrorised six young women has been jailed for 10 years.
Painter Marc McKillop, 27, raped one woman and attempted to murder another, seizing her by the hair and dragging her down stairs.
He attacked one victim while she was breastfeeding a baby, and put a belt round a womans neck and choked her until she thought she was going to die.
Judge Lady Scott told him he had subjected his victims to a storm of violence.
McKillop, of Rothes, Moray, claimed all his victims were liars.
But he was found guilty of 21 offences including attempted murder, rape, indecent assault, assault to permanent disfigurement and assault to the danger of life. He was cleared of a further rape charge on a not proven verdict.
McKillop attacked his victims over seven years at addresses in Moray and Aberdeen, often grabbing the women by the neck.
He also thrust his fingers into one victims eyes, put a pillow over a womans head and scarred a victim by striking her in the chest with a car key.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that victims had been left profoundly depressed and in some cases suicidal.
McKillop will be supervised for three years after release and was placed on the sex offenders register indeifinitely. His lawyer said in mitigation that he had a good work ethic.