Edinburgh predator carried out 'violent and forceful' attacks as a teen

The predator was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh
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A predatory double rapist who committed sudden, violent and forceful sex attacks on two women was jailed today (Thursday)

Benjamin Storrier, 26, attacked his first teenage victim at Kirkliston, Edinburgh, after he grabbed her and pushed her against a tree in a wooded area and subjected her to a rape ordeal. Storrier was still a teenager when he committed the first attack in October 2015 at King Edward Way in the early hours of the morning.

The girl told him to stop but he pulled down her leggings and raped her and told her to "shut the f--- up", the High Court in Edinburgh heard. Storrier, of Peveril Terrace, Edinburgh, struck again at an address in Bonnyrigg, in Midlothian, on May 8 in 2022 when he attacked a second woman at her home.

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During the sex assault he grabbed her hair and pushed her face down onto a bed and subjected her to a painful rape that left her bleeding afterwards. The woman later accused him in messages of really hurting her and giving her an infection.

She told him: "I didn't want that. You just did it anyway."

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The distressed victim later revealed what had happened to her to a male friend. Storrier had denied assaulting and raping the women during a trial and told police during in an interview that he did not find one of the women sexually attractive.

Advocate depute Jennifer Cameron told jurors that the evidence showed Storrier took advantage of opportunities to inflict "forceful and violent sexual offending" on victims.

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After Storrier was convicted of two charges of rape the trial judge, Lady Ross, placed him on the sex offenders' register. She told Storrier, who was on bail during his trial, that he would be remanded in custody while a background report is prepared on him ahead of sentencing next month.

The judge said: "It is clear that these are significant and serious offences."