Scots rape victim tells of vicious attack by colleague on his leaving night out

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A rape victim has told how she was viciously attacked by a colleague on his leaving night out.Sarah, who only wants to be known by her first name, was raped in her own home by predator Edward Lochrie, from Airdrie, after she invited workmates back to her Glasgow flat to order a taxi in July 2021.After refusing to leave, married Lochrie, 40, subjected her to a terrifying sexual assault then tried to cover his tracks in a series of frantic messages to the victim and her colleagues.Sarah has bravely spoken out in a bid to help other women, saying crucial support she received in the hours that followed the attack helped secure his conviction.She told the Record: “It happened after a work evening out.

We didn’t know each other very well and were no more than colleagues. I didn’t consider him a friend.“He was reasonably quiet and unassuming.

He very much kept himself to himself. I never imagined he was a harmful person.“At the end of the night he was the last person left and wouldn’t leave.

I got very insistent and forceful and told him to get out.“He intimated that he was going to leave, went to the door and pretended to put his shoes on and before I knew it he turned around again and raped me in my own home.”Lochrie, then a project manager, walked out following the attack and tried to contact Sarah on her work mobile over the following days.She said: “He didn’t have my personal number but tried to reach me the next day via message on my work mobile, asking if I was still talking to him.“The day after that he messaged again.