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A graduate who raped four women was jailed yesterday but given a shorter sentence because of his age. 

Logan Doig, 23, was locked up for nine and a half years at the High Court in Glasgow for a series of attacks at a university and in halls of residence. 

But the judge said he had reduced the term due to sentencing guidelines on young people. 

Doig struck between March 2015 and November 2020. 

Three of the rape victims and a fifth woman were subjected to other sexual attacks. 

The offences took place in Forfar and Kirriemuir, Angus, as well as a property in Dundee. 

One woman was violently attacked at Queen Margaret University, East Lothian, and raped in the student halls. 

Doig, of Kirriemuir, committed all the offences while aged between 15 and 21. A jury last month found him guilty of 12 offences including five rape charges. 

Yesterday, he was given a 12-and-a-half-year extended sentence by Lord Clark, including nine-and-a-half behind bars, and put on the sex offenders' register. But the judge said he had given Doig a shorter sentence than would have gone to an older offender due to the guidelines. 

These say under-25s should receive lesser sentences as they lack maturity and understanding for their actions. 

The judge added: 'I say you present a level of risk to the safety of women which makes an extended sentence necessary for the safety of the public. You were aged between 15 and 21 and I have to give careful consideration to the guidelines on sentencing young people.' 

It comes after a rape victim, 17, told how her alleged attacker escaped justice under SNP-backed diversion from prosecution rules which meant his case was not taken to court and referred to social workers instead. 

Scottish Tory justice spokesman Russell Findlay said: 'The guidelines seek to make excuses for the worst types of criminality with absolutely no consideration for the victims.'