Paisley man jailed for five years for sex attack
A rapist, from Paisley, who brutalised a woman causing her "significant trauma" was jailed for five years today.
A rapist, from Paisley, who brutalised a woman causing her "significant trauma" was jailed for five years today.
A judge told Charles Graham that the sex crime he committed was a grave offence and added: "There is no appropriate alternative to a custodial sentence."
Lord Clark said: "I note your position is to continue to deny you committed the offence."
The judge said at the High Court in Edinburgh: "Despite her lack of consent and indeed her continuing protests you forced yourself on her."
He told the 46-year-old that he would be placed on the sex offenders' register for in indefinite period following his conviction for rape.
Graham, formerly of Paisley, had denied raping the woman at a flat in the town on October 20 or 21 in 2013, but was earlier found guilty after a trial.
During the assault he ignored the woman's pleas to stop.
The victim told the court that she was hospitalised for four days after the attack.
She said: "I kept asking him to stop but he didn't. He was pushing on my shoulders. He said 'just wait till I finish'."
The woman said she was scared and angry and was complaining that the ordeal was sore.
She got into a shower and called a friend who demanded that she contact police and go the Royal Alexandra Hospital.
Defence counsel Edith Forrest said former delivery driver Graham had been placed in a low category of risk of sexual offending. She acknowledged that a jail sentence was "inevitable" for the grandfather.