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Sex beast caged for 8 attacks
 
 

A teenage pervert who attacked eight women in 90 minutes in Glasgow city centre was today caged for four years.

Robert Thomson was just 15 when he pounced on his terrified victims after downing a bottle of Buckfast on June 5.

Thomson, now 16, pleaded guilty to three charges of intent to rape, three indecent assaults and two assaults and was placed on the sex offenders' register.

Sentencing, Lord Turnbull said: "Robert Thomson, in the space of an hour-and-a-half you perpetrated indecent assaults on eight different young women in and around Glasgow city centre.

"Your conduct on that evening appeared to escalate in seriousness.

"Violent sexual assaults on women cannot be tolerated. I cannot allow the fact you were under the influence of an intoxicant to sweep aside what you did."

Lord Turnbull told Thomson that even after being chased by a member of the public after he sexually assaulted a woman at Cowcaddens Subway station he carried on offending.

The last attack where he dragged a woman into a lane and shoved her face in a puddle as he tried to have sex with her was the most serious of the eight, Lord Turnbull added, calling it: "Quite appalling."

The High Court in Glasgow heard that after committing the offences Thomson went home and had a family meal as if nothing had happened.

The teenager was caught following a large-scale media appeal to catch the attacker and arrested days later as he attended an air training corps camp.

Thomson, a first offender who came from a supportive family, was told by Lord Turnbull that but for his early guilty plea, he would have imposed six years detention.

Publication date 20/11/08

Posted by: newman, glasgow on 6:36pm Thu 20 Nov 08
With half remission on all sentances of 4 years and below, he will be out in 2 years which adds up to 3 months per sex attack. Some detterent!!!!
Posted by: Ronnie Cee, Glasgow on 9:16pm Thu 20 Nov 08
So this women-beating thug will be around 17 years old when he gets out of prison. Still too young to be drinking Buckfast, bet you he re-offends. Leopards like this don't change their spots . I wonder what he'll do to girls and women after a few whiskys?

Our Justice System is a joke. In the USA he'd have got three life sentences for the attempted rapes, let alone the five assaults.

No wonder our feral youths laugh at the Law (or what passes for the Law).
Posted by: wild wadi, kirkie on 9:35pm Thu 20 Nov 08
I'm sure his victims will be pleased to know he came from a good background.
Posted by: trench, possilpark on 10:36pm Thu 20 Nov 08
i bet the air training corps group are glad he was caught as quick, as they also have females in the cadets, (if he tried anything there the decent ones might have beat the crap out of him.)
Posted by: Titus a duxas, Ft.McMurray on 3:16am Fri 21 Nov 08
This skinny wee b a s t a r d will be gettin" plenty sex where he is goin" he will soon find out how bad it is to be raped.
Posted by: Angie Tibbs, Canada on 5:45am Fri 21 Nov 08
It is bad enough that this germ, vile, repulsive, carried out one attack on an innocent victim, but to attack eight in a period of 90 minutes, and then receive a "sentence" of four years?

What a miscarriage of justice!!

This is the sort of sentence that lets others of a similar vein know they can commit serious crimes and ssentially get away with it.

I don't understand the rationale behind sentencing of this nature, nor the mindset of the judge. What about his traumatized victims? This is appalling.
Posted by: I hear your pain, me,me,me on 5:58am Fri 21 Nov 08
Rape,assault etc of women & you get 4 yrs,steal a shed load of cash & get life,this system is fecked up.Throw the key away but no it will be play stations & TV for this little ****
Posted by: victor meldrew, condorrat on 10:43am Fri 21 Nov 08
Even I, as a layman, realise this cretin must have mental problems, which if not addressed, will still be there when he's released in two years.Our justice system too often is exposed as being as they say -'not fit for purpose'!
Posted by: trench, possilpark on 8:38pm Fri 21 Nov 08
the more i read about teenage crime,i am defineatly sure they want to get arrested and put in jail....so they can be sexually assaulted, oooyah!
Posted by: wild wadi, kirkie on 9:36pm Fri 21 Nov 08
I was always sceptical about all this CCTV but in this case I think it may have prevented this scumbag from putting more women through what can only be described as terrifying ordeals.
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