Valentine's Day rapist is put behind bars after Clydebank attacks
Gilbert Murray tied his victim to a radiator at a property in Clydebank before attacking her in February 2016
A sex attacker who raped a woman on Valentine's Day is behind bars.
Gilbert Murray subjected the victim to a horror ordeal while claiming to have killed her pet rabbit.
The 29 year-old later raped another woman after demanding she have sex.
Murray was today found guilty of five charges following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
The crimes spanned between December 2012 and January 2019 at different addresses in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire.
He already had a criminal record including a conviction for a domestic assault.
Murray, of Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, was remanded in custody pending sentencing next month.
Murray raped the first woman on February 14 2016 which included tying her wrists to a radiator.
Prosecutors stated this victim was kicked, punched, pushed down stairs, stamped upon and grabbed by the neck.
Other victims
Murray put the second woman through a similar ordeal.
As well as being raped between August 2018 and August 2019, the thug was also physically violent to her including choking her.
After the verdicts, a woman among a group of Murray's supporters said to him: "We know that you did not do it."
Murray was guilty of raping the first victim as well as assaulting her to her injury.
He was convicted of two charges of rape on the second woman and assaulting her to her severe injury.
Mark Moir KC, defending, said Murray had previously served a jail-term, but that his previous convictions were mainly road traffic matters and anti-social behaviour.
But, the advocate told Judge John McCormick: "One that may cause some concern is from October 2019 relating to an assault to injury with a domestic aggravation."
Murray was put on the sex offenders list.
Judge McCormick told him: "Bail will be revoked and you will be remanded in custody."