A former Royal Navy sailor who stole over £40,000 and splashed a company credit card during a beach holiday in Spain has been jailed for 15 months.
11.03.2024 - 05:03 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A social worker is behind bars for a string of depraved sex attacks on three women. Thomas Proctor preyed on his victims – including using his position to threaten to have the children of two of them removed from their care.
The 43-year-old raped one while she was recovering in hospital. He also took advantage of a victim after she drank water with a mystery substance in it. Proctor had denied the accusations during a trial at the High Court in Glasgow. But jurors found him guilty of a total of 11 charges.
They included the repeated rape and indecent assault of the first woman at different locations in Lanarkshire. Proctor was convicted of sexually assaulting the second female at a flat in Glasgow’s Maryhill.
He was finally guilty of raping and making threats to the final woman in Fife and Lanarkshire. The crimes spanned between January 2002 and August 2019.
Judge William Gallacher remanded Proctor, of Airdrie, in custody as sentencing was adjourned for reports. In his closing speech to jurors, prosecutor Alan Parfery told how Proctor was “calculated in a predatory fashion” towards his victims.
During one early attack with the first woman, he stated to her: “I am teaching you what you will like and what you do not like.” Her horrific ordeal at Proctor’s hands included being raped while she was recuperating in hospital from a medical procedure.
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