Between 1991 and 2001, Alastair Nicolson, 55, targeted Highland Argyll and Bute residents. A court listened to Alastair Nicolson beat one lady repeatedly.
He would call her nasty things, tug her hair, punch her on the head, and threaten her with a knife, hammer, or scissors.
Before throttling her to the brink of her life, he also struck her with a coal bucket and a fire poker.
Alastair Nicolson also made threats regarding finding a gun.
It was discovered that the abuser had sexually mistreated a minor child under the effect of cannabis he had provided.
Between the ages of 12 and 14, Nicolson performed sex acts on her and later would rape her once.
Alastair Nicolson slapped her also during an attack.
A second woman suffered under Alastair Nicolson’s hands as well; a third was severely battered during violent attacks.
She was kicked, punched, headbutted, slapped, and had a cigarette stubbed out on her.
Alastair Nicolson shattered her tooth, stamped on her head, crushed her neck with his hands and threatened to kill her during one attack.
Judge Lord Weir said: “You continue denying accountability for any of the crimes you were found guilty.
Indeed, the social worker mentioned proof that you aimed to denigrate the motives of your victims.
“You have exhibited no regret while the complainers have dealt with the results of your offensive actions over many years.
“The victim impact information available to the court, which I have studied, speaks eloquently of the impact of your offending and its profound and long-lasting effects.”
Alastair Nicolson acknowledged using cannabis but refuted all other allegations directed against him.
Jurors found him guilty of nine charges – including rape, assault, assault to injury and danger of life, and indecent behaviour towards a girl aged between 12 and 15 during a trial at the High Court in Inverness in May.
Mark Stewart KC, the defence lawyer, shockingly said: “He accepts the jury verdict, as he must, but he respectfully disagrees with it.”
On Friday at the High Court in Edinburgh, Alastair Nicolson was sentenced to fourteen years.
He was forbidden from contacting three of his victims and added to the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.
Scotland’s procurator fiscal for high court sexual offending, Katrina Parkes, remarked: “Alastair Nicolson is a dangerous, manipulative and violent individual who caused unspeakable trauma on the people he targeted.
“Thanks to the bravery of his victims who denounced him to the authorities, his rampant offending has now stopped.
“I hope this conviction comforts them that he is being held responsible for his actions.”
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