Jail for girl and inmate rapist

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A man who admitted raping a 17-year-old girl and subjecting an inmate to a sex attack while he was awaiting trial has been jailed for life.

James McColgan, 21, raped the girl in Paisley last September and tortured and raped a teenage boy in Polmont Young Offenders Institution in October.

At the High Court in Edinburgh, Lady Dorrian imposed a lifelong restriction order on McColgan.

He was also ordered to serve at least nine years before applying for parole.

The court was told McColgan, from Johnstone in Renfrewshire, had held the teenage student prisoner in a flat in Paisley, where she was punched in the face, ordered to strip and forced to cut off her hair.

The victim was stabbed and raped after trying to escape by running naked into a back garden.

Cell attack

She initially claimed McColgan had headbutted her but later confided to her sister that she had been raped.

McColgan was arrested and sent to Polmont, where the court heard he subjected a fellow inmate to a nine-hour ordeal of torture and rape.

The 17-year-old victim said McColgan had plunged his hand into a kettle of boiling water, burned him with a cigarette, stabbed him with a pen and made him drink water and cigarette butts from an ashtray, before sexually assaulting and raping him.

The inmate said no-one came to help him during the attack, despite his screams.

Passing sentence, Lady Dorrian told McColgan she was satisfied that the risk standards were met to impose an order for lifelong restriction on him.

This means that he will only be released if the parole board considers it safe to do so.

The judge also told McColgan that he would be on the sex offenders' register for life.

"It is quite clear these offences are extremely serious," she said.