A sex attacker who raped a sleeping teenager and assaulted a second victim when she was under the influence of drink has been jailed for eight years.
Thomas Findlay’s sentence was greeted with applause from one woman onlooker at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Findlay, 22, from Dumbarton, committed a string of sex crimes in the Fort William area between April 2015 and December 2017.
A judge told him: “I am conscious at the time of these offences you were a young man and indeed remain so.”
But Michael O’Grady said the evidence revealed he was someone who “systematically preyed” on young females.
The judge said: “The report before me would suggest that even now you show little empathy or remorse and essentially accept no responsibility.”
The judge also ordered that he should be kept under supervision for a further period of three years.
Findlay was earlier convicted by a jury of having sex with two underage girls and raping one of them and assaulting and raping a third victim.
He was acquitted of a further rape charge which the Crown had alleged had taken place in a vehicle on January 2 last year. He had denied all the rape charges.
Defence counsel Graham Robertson said Findlay recognised that the judge had “very little option other than to impose a custodial sentence”.
Mr Robertson said there was a problem with Findlay’s choices in sexual matters that required to be addressed.
Findlay was placed on the sex offenders register.