A serial rapist was labelled "a hazard to girls" and jailed for 10 years at present for a sequence of assaults in opposition to feminine companions.
Perverted, Sean Hartley, 34, was instructed by choose Lord Mulholland that he was "a violent home abuser of ladies."
Hartley, from Morayshire, admitted three rapes of three separate girls and a sequence of assaults together with an incident in Burghead in 2009 when he pushed a fourth lady onto a cooker, and the home abuse of a fifth lady.
His first, and youngest, sufferer was solely 15 when he raped her in Forres in 2005, and Hartley himself was nonetheless solely 17 on the time.
The areas of his crimes additionally included Inverness, Culloden, Elgin and Nairn, and ranged again over a interval of greater than 15 years, ending in December 2019.
Lord Mulholland, who learn sufferer impression statements from three of Hartley's victims, additionally made him topic to an prolonged sentence of an extra 4 years after the ten years' custody, throughout which period he will be recalled to jail if he re-offenders.
Hartley appeared for sentence on the Excessive Courtroom in Stirling, having pleaded responsible to the offences on the Excessive Courtroom in Inverness in February on the day he was as a result of face trial.
The court docket in Stirling heard that "for a wide range of causes" it had taken a while to get to the purpose the place sentence could possibly be imposed.
Lisa Gillespie, the advocate depute, stated in February that Hartley had slapped, punched and kicked his victims, in addition to spitting on them and calling them derogatory names.
Throughout two of the assaults he compressed his victims' necks, limiting their respiratory, and through one other he held a pillow over a lady's face.
The court docket heard how one lady obtained what she described as "the worst beating" by the hands of Hartley, throughout which she was "crying and begging him to cease".
The assault left the lady in such a state that she may "barely recognise herself", the court docket was instructed.
Ms Gillespie instructed the court docket that in one of many rapes the lady "repeatedly instructed him no however he insisted".
After one other rape he apologised to his sufferer.
The court docket additionally heard how Hartley had subjected a former companion to a marketing campaign of abuse which included bodily assaults and threats to kill.
Ms Gillespie stated Hartley had prevented the lady from contacting family and friends throughout their relationship and had stored a continuing examine on her whereabouts, typically demanding she ship him photos of her environment once they had been aside.
He additionally instructed the lady what garments she was allowed to put on, forbidding something that exposed her physique.
Brian McConnachie, QC, defending, stated that not one of the girls had wanted to offer proof on account of Hartley, who appeared for sentence by video hyperlink, tendering pleas.
He added: "He accepts drink and medicines have been an issue through the years, albeit medicine not so not too long ago."
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