A former landscape gardener from Fife who raped a vulnerable teenager in a derelict Victorian mental asylum has been jailed for three years.
Craig Osborne’s encounter with the victim began as consensual sex but he continued after she said “stop”, the High Court in Stirling was told.
Osborne, now 20, had met the victim, a teenager, along with other youngsters, in “the rather strange environment” of the abandoned Ravenscraig Hospital in Greenock, Renfrewshire.
The court heard “there was no doubt” at the start their sexual encounter was consensual but Osborne, who was only 17 at the time, continued after being told to stop.
The incident happened on August 18, 2018.
Osborne, a father-of-one, of Greenock – formerly of Rosyth – denied rape but was found guilty by a jury at the High Court in Glasgow in September.
‘Serious risk’ to public
Advocate Dale Hughes, defending, said the “get-together of young people in the abandoned building had started in good spirits, before matters took a darker turn”.
Judge Lord Sandison said: “I think there were rather too many spirits and that was the problem.”
He said a social work report highlighted Osborne posed “a serious risk of harm to other people” when at liberty.
He told him: “You were convicted of raping [the victim] by not stopping what was essentially consensual sexual intercourse between you when she asked you to do so.
“It is obvious that any form of rape is a very serious matter.”
Osborne was jailed for two years in June for breach of the peace and dangerous driving after an incident in which he smashed a Vauxhall Corsa into a police squad car, “narrowly missing crushing” one of its officers.
