West Lothian Rapist Jailed For Eight Years
A sex predator was jailed for eight years today (Fri 17th July) after raping a mother whose baby he had taken from her arms before carrying out the attack.
Colin McKay, who's 34, carried out a series of sex crimes, raping the woman and a 15-year-old girl and indecently assaulting another female in West Lothian.
A judge told him at the High Court in Livingston that the case disclosed him to be "a predatory sexual offender preying on vulnerable women when the opportunity arose".
Lady Wolffe said: "You have been convicted of a number of predatory rapes of women who were vulnerable by reason of their age or circumstances."
The judge also ordered that handyman McKay be kept under supervision for a further two years and placed him on the sex offenders' register indefinitely.
She told McKay, formerly of McNeil Crescent, Armadale, West Lothian, that he had been assessed as posing a high risk of further violent offending.
The judge said: "You are noted as adopting a position of extreme denial and blame your victims."
She noted that McKay continued to deny the offences he was convicted of by a jury. Lady Wolffe told him: "There is no alternative to a custodial sentence."
McKay had denied the offences but was earlier found guilty of raping the mother on two occasions at her home in the summer of 2005 and raping the teenage girl the same year at a house in West Lothian.
He was also convicted of carrying out the indecent assault on the third victim at a house in Armadale in 2011.
Defence counsel Ian Duguid QC said: "His evidence was to deny categorically that any of these allegations took place."
But the defence counsel acknowledged that a jail sentence was "inevitable" following his conviction for the offences.