Life sentence for sick rapist Scots court ruled was no risk to public

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A convicted killer and sex offender who raped a woman after he was no longer deemed to be a risk has been handed a life sentence for further depraved offences - including against a vulnerable Stirling woman.Mohammed Akram, 64, had already racked up a string of convictions for serious crimes stretching back more than 40 years.Akram was sentenced on Monday at the High Court in Glasgow for his latest crimesJudge Gillian Wade KC imposed an Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR) - effectively meaning he could spend the rest of his life behind bars - with a minimum sentence of five years.She said despite Akram having already served a number of jail terms there had been “no impact” on his “propensity” to re-offend.In this most recent conviction, Akram was found guilty of repeatedly raping a woman between 2010 and 2022.These crimes stretch to almost five years after a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO)- which imposed tough restrictions on his movements - was overturned by a Sheriff who ruled there was not enough evidence that Akram still posed a risk to the public.The rapes occurred at a flat in Edinburgh and at a property in Glasgow.He was further found guilty of raping the same woman in the capital in 2021 and of repeated assaults between 1995 and 2000 in Glasgow and Clackmannanshire.

Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area. Jurors also convicted him of raping a vulnerable girl at a flat in Stirling in 1997.

She has now passed away.Akram was also found guilty of five charges against a third female - three rapes, attempted murder and indecent assault - committed between 1999 and 2001 at various locations across Scotland including Aberdeen and Stirling.A long list of previous convictions detail that Akram