A serial rapist is facing a lengthy prison sentence after he was convicted of serious sexual violence against three women.
Lee Thomson had his name added to the sex offenders register yesterday after a jury found him guilty of six rapes.
The 26-year-old was also convicted of assaulting all three of his victims physically, smashing one young woman’s cheekbone and leaving the others covered in bruises.
He was found guilty of abducting one young woman by locking her in a house after ripping out the internet connection and taking away her mobile phone and laptop so she couldn’t contact anyone.
Thomson, from Oakley, Dunfermline, had denied rape, claiming all his victims had consented to sex.
However, after hearing almost identical accounts of how he bullied the females into having intercourse, including forcing himself on two of them while they were asleep, a jury found him guilty as charged.
The young women aged 20, 24 and 25 corroborated each other’s evidence of his offending over a seven-year period from 2012 to 2019.
Summing up at the High Court in Livingston, advocate depute Derick Nelson said Thomson used violence, or the threat of it, when he was refused sex.
“If consent is only given because someone’s going to batter her that’s not consent freely given,” he said.
Mr Nelson added: “I’d suggest the real Lee Thomson is a controlling denigrating bully. There’s ample evidence he’s a dangerous man with clear anger control issues, and he’s a manipulative man.”
Following the verdicts it emerged that Thomson had numerous previous convictions for stalking, threatening and abusive behaviour and domestic violence.
Judge Lord Pentland said he had been convicted of “serious” charges and called for background reports. He said he would pass sentence at the High Court in Edinburgh on February 21.
He remanded Thomson in custody until then.
