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

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.