Man found guilty of raping three sisters under age of 13 in Glasgow

A Slovakian man has been convicted of raping three sisters over an 11 year period in Glasgow.

Matus Ferko, 44, was told by judge Lady Rae: “You have been convicted of an appalling catalogue of violent sexual offending against children.

“The damage you have done to these young women is immeasurable. You can expect a substantial period of imprisonment.”

The High Court in Glasgow heard that Ferko carried out the offences between November 2004 and April 2015 at various addresses in Glasgow.

Two of Ferko's victims were eight when he raped them and the third girl was 13.

He raped one of the eight-year-olds once, but he repeatedly raped his other two victims.

He used violence, seizing hold of his victims and tying one girl's hands with rope and putting his hand over the mouth of another.

Throughout his trial Ferko denied the charges against him and claimed that all three victims were making it up.

Lady Rae described the girls' evidence as “very distressing” and told the jury after they had delivered their guilty verdicts: “No matter how many cases of this kind I have heard as a judge, one never gets used to it.”

Prosecutor Bill McVicar said: “An arrest warrant was issued in October 2017. The accused had returned to Slovakia and a European arrest warrant was issued in March 2018 and he was taken into custody in Slovakia and extradited on July 2018.”

Ferko, who is in custody in Barlinnie, was placed on the sex offenders' register.

He will be sentenced next month.