A father-of-seven has been jailed for nine years after carrying out predatory sex attacks on women, including a teenage girl.
Emmanuel Nsiah, 40, formerly of Lansdowne Court, Lansdowne Gardens, Dundee, had denied a string of charges during a trial but was found guilty of five offences.
Judge Lord Braid told him: “You were convicted by the jury of three counts of rape and two of sexual assault committed against three different women.”
The judge, at the High Court in Edinburgh, said: “The gravity of the offending is such that only a significant custodial sentence is appropriate.”
He pointed out much of Nsiah’s offending was directed against women who were sleeping and vulnerable at the time of the offences, which were all committed in Dundee.
On Register for indeterminate period
Nsiah attacked his first victim from July 2008 and raped her when she was asleep and when she was awake.
While acting with another, he went on to assault and rape a second woman at a flat in the city on a single occasion when she was sleeping and incapable of consenting between June 1 and July 31 in 2012.
The rapist’s final victim was a teenage girl who he sexually assaulted at a flat on June 26 in 2013 after rubbing his groin on her and touching her.
Defence counsel David Moggach told the court Nsiah still maintains his innocence but knew he must “respect the verdict of the jury”, which sat at the High Court in Dundee.
He added it was “inevitable” Nsiah would be jailed following his convictions and that he has been assessed as posing a medium risk.
Mr Moggach said: “He has a good work ethic. He worked as a car valeter.”
The defence counsel said although Nsiah has previous convictions, including two for assault, they were far less serious than the present crimes before the court.
Nsiah, who followed the court proceedings via a video link to Perth Prison, was told he will be on the Sex Offenders Register for an indeterminate period.
