A rapist who carried out a sex attack on a woman in her own home after meeting her for the first time was jailed for five years on Friday.
Andon Diamanti struggled with the victim before subjecting her to the traumatic sexual assault at an address in Dumfries. A judge at the High Court in Edinburgh pointed out that although Diamanti had some previous contact with the 60-year-old woman it was the first occasion he met her in person.
Lord Arthurson told the sex offender: “A significant custodial sentence is clearly merited in this case.” Diamanti, of Beardmore Cottages, Old Greenock Road, Renfrew, had earlier denied assaulting the woman and subjecting her to oral rape on November 5 in 2021 but was found guilty of the crime.
The Albanian national claimed at his trial that it was a consensual sexual encounter and continued to maintain that to a social worker preparing a background report on him, despite a jury rejecting his account.
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