A MAN has admitted raping a 14-year-old girl on waste ground at the rear of shops in Glasgow’s East End.

The High Court heard Stephen Kinnaird, 31, from Glasgow, also pleaded guilty to repeatedly raping the girl over a seven-year period when she was aged between eight and 14.

When Kinnaird was confronted by the victim in June, he initially denied the rape at the shops, but then claimed “it was a one-time thing.”

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But, his victim said he had raped her and sexually abused her since she was eight.

The court heard that, on June 27, Kinnaird asked the girl to go to an ATM with him and then took her to an area of waste ground behind the shops.

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The girl was upset and withdrawn and, when her sister asked her what was wrong, she told her Kinnaird had raped her.

Kinnaird, who worked as a joiner, later told police he had tried to kill himself because he was being called a paedophile.

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He admitted two charges of raping the girl on various occasions between August 2011 and August 2016 and, on various occasions, between August 2016 and June 2018.

The defence counsel said Kinnaird has expressed genuine remorse.

Judge Lady Rae said: “The remorse he claims he is expressing, it’s only been expressed since he was caught.”

She told told Kinnaird: “The level of depravity disclosed in the narrative of events which I have heard is in my view quite extreme.”

Sentence was deferred until November 8 at the High Court in Livingston.