Man Jailed For Rape After A&E Doctor Row

A man who raped a woman after accusing her of having sex with an accident and emergency doctor has been jailed for nine years.

At the High Court in Glasgow Paul Meechan, 23, from Yoker, admitted raping the woman at a house in Alexandria, Dunbartonshire.

He also admitted assaulting her by pouring milk and the contents of two ashtrays over her and taking photographs of her and telling her to smile.

Meechan also pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting another woman at a house in a house in Rutherglen and battering her with a Playstation controller and repeatedly punching her.

These offences were committed between April 2009 and January 2013.

Judge Lord Boyd ordered Meechan to be monitored in the community for three years after he is released from prison because of the risk he poses.

Advocate depute Douglas Fairley QC, prosecuting, said: "Two weeks into the relationship with the woman he raped, the accused began making accusations that she was being unfaithful.

"He accompanied her to A &E and waited in the waiting room while she was examined by a doctor and found to have a urinary infection."

That evening Meechan repeatedly told her she had slept with the doctor and demanded she had sex with him.

When she told him she didn't want to have sex he raped her while she cried loudly.

The next morning began shouting and swearing at her demanding that she tell him she had slept with the doctor.

Mr Fairley said: "Because she was frightened she eventually admitted to having had sex with the doctor, although she knew that this was not true."

Later that night he told her she was "a sick individual" "twisted" and a "slut" and then poured milk and the contents of two ashtrays over her head.

He took a photograph of her covered in milk and cigarette ends and ash and told her to "smile for the camera."

In the early hours of the next morning she fled after he told her: "I'm going to stab you. I'm going to slash your face. I'll gladly do three years for it."

The court heard that he beat his other victim so often that she flinched when he approached her.

He also locked her in the house when he left because he believed she was seeing other men.

She told police that on occasions he threw crockery with food on it at her for no reason and then force her to eat the food off the floor.

On one occasion he assaulted her with the Playstation remote control in front of his grandmother. When his grandmother tried to intervene Meechan told her: "the more you hit me, the harder I'm gonnae hit her." Defence counsel Tony Graham said: "The offences committed by the accused are despicable and distasteful. He is emotionally immature."