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A rapist and serial domestic abuser “wept like a baby” after he was found guilty of raping and abusing four women over a long period of time.
Rian Hood sobbed as he was remanded in custody to await sentencing for charges including rape, abduction and assault to danger to life.
The 31-year-old is facing a lengthy prison sentence following a trial at the High Court in Elgin this month. Now, one of Hood’s victims’ has bravely spoken out to call for tougher sentences for men who terrorise their partners.
Jade Doolan told how during their 18-month relationship he banned her from contacting family members, tracked her location using her phone and sexually assaulted her.
She told how cocaine and a gambling addiction turned Hood from a “perfect” boyfriend into a violent control freak, and how his weeping after being convicted had helped her heal the mental scars of his abuse.
She said: “I am tortured everyday by what he did but I’m pleased he’s been found guilty and I hope the courts punish him harshly for the women he has harmed."I was told by another victim who was in court that he’d cried like a baby as he was taken away - I wasn’t surprised. I always knew he would react like that. It’s called justice.”
Jade, who is having counselling for her ordeal, said when they met in the summer of 2018, Hood appeared to be the ideal boyfriend.
She she added: “I found out over the summer that he had lost his job - a fact he tried to hide from me. He was also funding a cocaine and gambling addiction.
"He would start to make me feel like I was worthless regularly, accusing me of cheating on him and demanding my location always be on when we were not together.
“He was either at work (in a new job), on the drink or on his PC playing games or gambling. He broke his PC screen because he lost a bet.”
He first attacked her in September 2018, throwing her out their house in her underwear and making her sit in the cold. She said: “He was in my face screaming at me, there was an ironing board next to me and he picked it up and slammed it into the wall.
"He started screaming at me calling me stupid for crying saying, “look at the f****g state of you, you stupid c*w, you caused this”.
"I was hysterical, he grabbed me and dragged me out of the house in my bra and threw my jumper after me and slammed the door closed. He locked me out in this state.
“After this I was on eggshells. He would log into my social media on the way to work and check who I was talking to.”
Jade eventually fled to a women’s refuge. Hood beat her savagely on Christmas Eve 2019 – and the police were called, leading to his conviction.
He is due to be sentenced next month.