Predator raped sleeping women and had sex with underage girl

A predatory sex offender who raped sleeping women has been jailed for seven years.

Gavin Green assaulted two victims while they were asleep and incapable of consenting to sex at houses in Musselburgh, in East Lothian, and Penicuik, in Midlothian.

The 30-year-old, formerly of Pathhead, Midlothian, denied a series of charges during an earlier trial but was found guilty of raping the women and a further charge of having sex with an underage victim at addresses in Tranent, Macmerry and Musselburgh, in East Lothian.

Judge Michael O’Grady KC told Green at the High Court in Edinburgh that he was convicted of “very grave charges” for crimes that often have terrible consequences.

The judge previously told the sex offender: “You cynically preyed on them; you used and abused them without regard to the consequences. Your own desires came before all else.”

“It is a statement of the obvious to say that rape is an appalling crime. For the victim it brings fear and distress and no small measure of humiliation. Its effects can linger for years and indeed for lifetimes,” he said.

Green began his sexual offending when he was a teenager in 2011 and started having sex with an underage girl.

He also assaulted and raped the teenage victim when she was sleeping a number of times between September that year and 2014.

He subjected a second victim to rapes when she was asleep between February 2021 and May the following year.

Defence solicitor advocate Brian Gilfedder told the court: “[Green] has never been in prison before. He has worked hard all his adult life and, by and large, appears to be pro-social.”

Mr Gilfedder said Green continued to deny the offences but realised that he would be going to jail for a significant period of time.

The judge made non-harassment orders prohibiting Green from contacting or attempting to contact victims indefinitely.

Green was placed on the sex offenders’ register.