A rapist has been jailed for seven years after carrying out an attack on a woman in her own home.
A judge at the High Court in Edinburgh told Robert McGregor his desire to humiliate and degrade the victim during the attack on 22 August 2020 was obvious.
Lord Young, who was provided with a victim impact statement, said: “The effect on her has been both traumatic and truly life altering.”
He said aggravating features of the crime included the attempt to degrade the victim and the fact that significant harm was caused to her.
McGregor, 44, ignored pleas by his victim to stop during the rape, which took place the morning after a party in Greenock.
Lord Young said: “This was a horrific attack on a woman in her home in which your desire to humiliate and degrade is obvious.”
The woman said McGregor’s whole demeanour changed before he launched the assault.
Offshore scaffolder McGregor, formerly of Brown Street, Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, had earlier denied raping the woman but was convicted of the offence following a trial.
The judge said he accepted that there was no pre-planning involved in the offence and noted that McGregor was assessed as posing a medium risk of re-offending.
Defence counsel Edith Forrest told the court McGregor continued to maintain the position he took at his trial.
She said he had “a limited criminal history” but had no previous convictions for sexual offences.
She added that at the time of the rape he was drinking and occasionally using cocaine.
McGregor was placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
