A violent rapist from Fife who inflicted a catalogue of cruelty and abuse on women, children and animals has been jailed.
Garry Martin, 51, carried out a series of attacks and sex crimes during nearly three decades of violence.
Martin, of Massereene Road, Kirkcaldy had denied a string of charges during a trial but was found guilty of 19 offences of rape, indecent assault and conduct, assault and ill-treatment of dogs.
A judge told him: “The jury has today convicted you of a series of extremely serious offences of a violent and sexual nature.”
Lord Arthurson told Martin he should now expect to receive a “very significant” prison sentence.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard although Martin has a record he has never previously served a jail sentence.
Defence solicitor advocate John Scott QC said: “Clearly a period of imprisonment is now inevitable.”
Assaulted young girl for four years
Martin’s offending began in 1995 when he repeatedly subjected a woman to attacks at an address in Kirkcaldy.
During the assaults she was struck on the head, grabbed and dragged by the hair and body and stamped and spat on.
He also began assaulting a young girl in 1995 and in attacks over the next four years at houses in Leven and Kirkcaldy she was pinned against a wall, hit on the head and body with his hands, struck with a can and kicked.
During a further attack in 2000 at a house in Thornton, he attacked another adult woman, who was grabbed by the hair and held down, repeatedly punched on the head and bitten on her body.
The following year at addresses in Kirkcaldy and Windygates, he assaulted another woman who was dragged by the hair, pushed to the ground and thrown over a sofa.
The victim was also punched and thrown down stairs.
Raped women, hit child, beat dogs
Between May 2003 and July in 2006 Martin also cruelly beat, kicked and ill-treated a dog in incidents in Kirkcaldy and at Markinch.
Another woman was subjected to assaults by him between 2003 and New Year’s Day in 2006 in Kirkcaldy and Markinch when she was punched and kicked, pulled by her hair and he tried to topple furniture on to her.
Martin also attacked a young boy at a house in Kirkcaldy between November 2004 and December 2005.
He hit the child with his hand and threw food at him.
He went on to rape a woman and a girl at an address in Kirkcaldy and beat and kicked a second dog in the Fife town.
In 2009 he carried out further sex attacks on another woman in his home town and molested her while she was asleep.
Between January 2012 and January 2014 he committed assaults on a further woman at addresses in Kirkcaldy and punched her on the head, threw items at her and threatened her with violence.
Martin was on bail during his trial but the judge remanded him in custody following the verdicts and called for a background report and risk assessment to be prepared.
Martin was placed on the Sex Offenders Register and will be sentenced next month.
