SENIOR JUDGE SLAMS SERIAL RAPIST AS AMONG WORST EVER FACED
A senior judge has told a serial sex attacker he is amongst the worst rapists he has ever dealt with.Lord Arthurson made these remarks after hearing of the harrowing ordeal Jordan Frankland put a teenage girl through.
The crimes, carried out during a three-year campaign of abuse, included the 22-year-old filming himself raping the vulnerable victim.
Frankland is behind bars after he admitted repeatedly attacking the girl between October 1, 2020, and December 4, 2023, with incidents in Clydebank and the North of Glasgow.
The girl, who had a troubled background, was first raped when she was 13.
Prosecutor Eilidh Robertson described how Frankland came into a room she was in, demanded sex, and pushed her onto a bed.
He also seized her by the throat, slapped her, pulled her hair, and sometimes left her with bruises or scratches.
On one occasion, he pulled her into an alley and told her she should be scared.
The girl was also assaulted after they met in Kelvingrove Park, and other incidents involved a train.
Video evidence from March 2023 showed him calling her "a s**t" and slapping her cheek as she cried, telling her to "Shut your f***ing mouth." She has no memory of the sexual encounter in that footage.
Further assaults occurred in a forest in Old Kilpatrick after she agreed to meet him in late 2023, during which he pushed her to the ground and continued to assault her despite her screams and fears of passing out.
Frankland had previously been subject to six different bail orders.
Judge Lord Arthurson said this is one of the worst cases of rape he has ever dealt with and will take a cautious approach in sentencing, with the defendant returning to court next month.
