Intruder raped the woman at her home in Edinburgh, after passing through the door while watching the TV

A violent intruder subjected a 61-year-old woman to a violence or out of her home through a French door.

Bradley Shand threw the woman as “a doll of rag” during the attack, which took place after being issued under three courts of the court and had five pending judicial files.

The 23 -year -old denied to rape the woman on January 9, 2023, at a house in the Murrayfield area of ​​Edinburgh, but was found guilty of the crime at the High Court on Tuesday.

The court heard that the woman was watching TV when she heard a noise. He went to investigate and found a glass that hit the door and crushed it.

Shand entered the woman’s house through the broken door and got a phone call from her.

He continued to submit to the woman to serious sexual assault during which she was injured.

The victim in suffering went to the house of a neighbor with blood on his face and a robe.

The neighbor said: “He was obviously upset, shaken, asking himself” what did I do? ”.

The victim said, “He threw me like a doll. I don’t feel safe anymore. I sit on the ground floor and bring all the memories. I feel numb. “

Shand continued to commit an additional crime on the same time he threw a Boulder and Stone garden ornament and broke a window at the house of a couple in the Corttorfine area, after asking to hand over the car’s keys.

He acknowledged that he tried to plunder a set of car keys and a motor car.

Shand was placed in the register of sex criminals, and his arrest arrest was continued while a substantive report was prepared on him before conviction.

The judge of court, Lord Summers, said: “You have been unanimously convicted by the jury of a rape and a brutal attack and for this you can expect to receive a sentence with substantial custody.”

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