A sex offender has been jailed for raping a blind teenager 30 years his junior while she was asleep - then continuing the attack when she woke up.Derek Boyd preyed on the woman, who had just turned 19, at a property in his home town of Irvine, Ayrshire.
He was described in court papers as "significantly overweight".Boyd, who was 48 at the time, claimed the encounter with the teenager was consensual, forcing her to give evidence against him during his trial.He went on trial at the High Court in Kilmarnock earlier this year.
The court heard that Boyd began raping the young woman, who is registered blind, while she was asleep.The court was also told that she woke up during the ordeal and tried to push Boyd off her.
But she was unable to do so and he continued to rape her while she was awake. Boyd denied raping the woman, insisting that they had had consensual sex.
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