Edinburgh Rapist Benjamin Storrier, a predatory double rapist sex offender, who perpetrated abrupt, aggressive, and coercive sexual assaults on two women, was sentenced to imprisonment today (Thursday).
Benjamin Storrier, 26, assaulted his initial young victim at Kirkliston, Edinburgh, by seizing her and forcing her against a tree in a rural region, where he perpetrated a rape. Storrier was a youngster when he perpetrated the initial assault in October 2015 at King Edward Way during the early morning hours.
The girl instructed Benjamin Storrier to cease, but he forcibly removed her leggings and assaulted her, commanding her to “be silent,” as presented at the High Court in Edinburgh. On May 8, 2022, Benjamin Storrier, residing on Peveril Terrace in Edinburgh, perpetrated an assault on a second woman at her residence in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian.
During the sex assault Benjamin Storrier grabbed her hair and pushed her face down onto a bed and subjected her to a painful rape that left her bleeding afterwards. The woman later accused him in messages of really hurting her and giving her an infection.
She told him: “I didn’t want that. You just did it anyway.”
The distressed victim later revealed what had happened to her to a male friend. Benjamin Storrier had denied assaulting and raping the women during a trial and told police during in an interview that he did not find one of the women sexually attractive.
Advocate depute Jennifer Cameron told jurors that the evidence showed Benjamin Storrier took advantage of opportunities to inflict “forceful and violent sexual offending” on victims.
After Benjamin Storrier was convicted of two charges of rape the trial judge, Lady Ross, placed him on the sex offenders’ register. She told Benjamin Storrier, who was on bail during his trial, that he would be remanded in custody while a background report is prepared on him ahead of sentencing next month.
The judge said: “It is clear that these are significant and serious offences.”
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