An Inverness teenager has been convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl and sexually assaulting a disabled young woman with a borderline learning disability.
Connor MacKinnon, 19, pled guilty to the rape and two sexual assaults on the morning he was due to stand trial on 20 offences at the High Court in Livingston.
His not guilty pleas to 16 further alleged sex offences and one physical assault were accepted by the prosecution.
Judge Lord Burns called for information about the accused’s earlier convictions, a social work background report and an assessment of the risk he poses to the public and adjourned the case for sentence at Edinburgh High Court on May 8.
MacKinnon, who is from Inverness but currently on remand at Polmont Young Offenders’ Institution near Falkirk, admitted forcibly raping the 15-year-old girl in his bedroom at Eildon House homeless unit between June 1 and August 4 last year.
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Advocate depute Jane Farquharson told the court that the pair went to his accommodation to charge her phone.
She said the rape ordeal lasted “a matter of seconds” because McKinnon immediately backed off, when the girl reacted by lifting up her knees.
Later, she and her male friend walked past the accused by chance and she burst into tears.
The matter was reported to police two days later on August 7 last year.
The advocate depute said that at the time of the rape, MacKinnon had been freed on bail after appearing in court in relation to two earlier attacks on the “easily led” and “socially immature” girl with learning difficulties, who was 17 at the time.
He admitted sexually assaulting the girl at Vue cinema in Inverness on December 22 2017 when her mother, who was chaperoning, went to the toilet.
MacKinnon was placed on the sex offenders’ register in February last year after being convicted in January that year of three sexual assaults involving 13-year-old girls.
He was originally put on a community payback order with three years supervision and strict conditions about contacting children under the age of 16 but breached the order and was sentenced to six months detention.
John Keenan, defending, highlighted that the guilty pleas had avoided six vulnerable complainers from having to give evidence, adding that he would reserve his plea in mitigation until sentencing.