Amber Gibson was raped five months before she was murdered by her brother in a park.Jamie Starrs, 20, pounced on the vulnerable 16-year-old at his home in Bothwell, Lanarkshire.
Starrs denied targeting the youngster in June 2021 and went on trial at the High Court in Lanark but was convicted by a jury of raping Amber and another teenager two weeks earlier.A statement Amber gave to officers was crucial in bringing her rapist to justice.
She said: "I was under the covers but when I went to get up I felt I didn't have clothes on my bottom half, my trousers were next to me on top of the covers.
I saw that the guy Jamie was asleep in the bed with me, it was light enough to say that it was him."He then got up from under the covers and he was completely naked and he put on a red tracksuit and pulled out a blue windbreaker style jacket and I managed to put my trousers on underneath the covers.
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