Nairn Hotel Rapist Jailed For 6 Years

A chef who raped two women in separate sex attacks at Scottish hotels was jailed for six years today.

George Webster assaulted his first victim in Perthshire before striking again in an attack on another woman in Inverness-shire almost a year later.

A judge told Webster (28) at the High Court in Edinburgh: "You treated them appallingly badly and that must be dealt with appropriately."

Edward Bowen QC told Webster that he would be placed on the sex offenders' register indefinitely.

The judge said that he took into account that Webster was of previous good character.

Webster, who has been in prison since May last year, was convicted of the sex crimes at an earlier trial.

He raped his first victim at staff quarters at Scotlands Hotel, in Bonnethill Road, Pitlochry, on June 7 in 2013.

he took off her lower clothing while she was incapable of giving or withholding her consent and had sex with her.

Webster ignored the 23-year-old when she woke and told him to leave her and raped her again when she was unconscious and asleep.

The hotel worker carried out the second rape in a room at the Golf View Hotel, in Seabank Road, in Nairn, on May 4 last year after he was released on bail by a sheriff in Perth the previous year.

He locked the door and detained his second young victim and demanded she remove her clothes.

Webster pulled her shirt off and pushed her to the floor and carried out an oral sex act.

He forced her to take off clothing and seized her by the wrists and pinned the 22-year-old down and raped her during the attack.

Defence counsel Drew McKenzie said Webster had been brought up in Zimbabwe before moving to the UK with his parents as a teenager.

He said Webster had worked as a kitchen porter but went on to become a chef.

He said he had been working at Scotlands Hotel but was approached by a former colleague to go to Nairn.

The defence counsel said Webster was hard working and struck him as an intelligent man.