Stefan Scott 32

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Stefan Scott, 26, raped three victims and committed almost identical offences against all of the women by punching and strangling them.

A controlling monster who physically and sexually abused six women during a seven-year campaign of violence has been caged.

Stefan Scott, 26, was convicted of brutally strangling and raping three of the women, subjecting one of them to two violent rape ordeals.

He committed almost identical offences against all of his victims, threatening them, calling them derogatory names, punching them and often grabbing them by the throat.

The women he sexually assaulted who can't be named for legal reasons told a jury at the High Court in Livingston that Scott would not take no for an answer when he wanted sex and quickly became violent.

They gave evidence that the Buckfast drinker would hurl insults at them, calling them stupid bitch, slag, slut or whore and punch them repeatedly if they disobeyed his commands.

The jury took three hours to return unanimous verdicts finding him guilty of a total of 21 charges including the rapes, assault to injury and danger of life and making violent threats.

A further charge of raping one of his victims while asleep was found not proven and he was acquitted by judge Lord Burns.

During the five day trial, the rape victims aged 21, 29 and 33 gave remarkably similar accounts of how Scott would restrict their breathing by compressing their throat as he raped them.

The 33-year-old said he held her head under water and raped her three different ways during one terrifying incident.

Scott claimed in his own defence that all sexual activity with the women had been consensual and he denied their claims that he wouldn't take no for an answer claiming if the women werent up for sex it didn't happen.

He admitted there had been frequent arguments while he was with the females and that he had punched one of the women three times during a row.

He flatly denied strangling and raping any of them but the jury didnt believe him.

Former partners aged, 25, and 26, told how their relationships with Scott started well but quickly descended into controlling violence.

Evidence from a 29-year-old, who has since passed away, was also read out by a police officer.

The 25-year-old said he pinned her to a bed with his hands round her throat and compressed her neck for several minutes, restricting her breathing to the danger of her life.

She said he also threw a pot of water containing pasta at her forcing her to put her hands up to protect her face.

On another occasion he delivered a full-blown punch to her eye bursting her eyebrow and told her to tell people shed bumped into a door.

Another time he pulled her by the ankles off a bed so that she landed heavily on the floor

The 26-year-old said she spent six months with Scott before she discovered he was cheating on her with the 29-year-old, who was her best friend. During that time she said he would repeatedly shout and swear at her and call her abusive names.

After he started seeing the friend, she said she noticed her friend had bruises including a distinctive one in the shape of an iron on her leg.

The friend gave a statement to police after being admitted to hospital with severe bruising down her back and choke marks on her neck.

She revealed that he had threatened to burn down her home, tried to strangle her and pushed her head on the floor and repeatedly punched her to her injury.

She also told police she was subject to the same sort of name calling spoken to by the other witnesses.

Following the guilty verdicts advocate depute Cath Harper revealed that Scott, of Rannoch Road, Perth, had previous convictions for domestic abuse and had served two 10-month prison terms, the most recent imposed in August last year.

Lord Burns called for reports into Scotts background and an assessment of the risk he poses to the public in general and women in particular before passing sentence at Glasgow High Court on 5 April. He remanded Scott in custody until then.

He ordered that Scottish Ministers be notified of the rape convictions under laws for the protection of vulnerable groups and told Scott his name would remain on the sex offenders register indefinitely.