A masked sex attacker brutally raped an 83 year-old woman in her Fife home.
Kyle McKenzie broke into the pensioner’s house late at night and told the victim as she lay in bed: “Do not scream, do not resist.”
A judge heard how the pensioner – who had a pacemaker – bravely tried to fight off McKenzie.
After he put the woman through the harrowing ordeal, the 23 year-old escaped out a window of the property in Glenrothes.
The widow managed to press her personal safety alarm and in a tearful call stated to a worker: “I have just been raped. Please – hurry, hurry.”
When he appeared in court in January, sick McKenzie claimed she had consented to have sex.
The first offender now faces a lengthy stint behind bars after he pled guilty to charges of rape and housebreaking.
He will return to the dock next month.
Pensioner tried to fight off attacker
Prosecutor Graeme Jessop told Glasgow High Court how the rape victim was partially deaf, registered disabled and lived alone at her home.
At around 5am, she was wakened by her bed covers being pulled from her body.
McKenzie had used a boulder to help him reach a window to get in.
Mr Jessop said: “She observed a man wearing all-black clothing and balaclava, while brandishing a garden tool.
“He continued to pull the bed covers from the woman, who became frightened and began to resist.
“She grabbed his hand containing the weeding tool and discovered he was wearing rubber gloves.
“She began to struggle with McKenzie and was repeatedly punched to the head.”
‘You are going to kill me’
The woman ended up on the floor at one stage.
She pleaded with the attacker: “You are going to kill me.”
He went on to rape the pensioner, who eventually managed to trigger her safety alarm.
Mr Jessop said: “She describes ‘not being in this world’ for a number of minutes.”
It is thought McKenzie was spooked by the noise of the alarm and fled the scene.
An advisor at the Community Alarm Team at Fife Council managed to speak to the woman, who begged for help.
She was found to be “distressed, shocked and confused” when police initially met her.
She had suffered a number of bruises as a result of her ordeal.
Snared by DNA and trainer print
DNA later linked McKenzie to the crime.
The pattern from the sole of his Adidas trainers also matched a footwear mark found under the victim’s bedroom window.
Police discovered he had left a friend’s house in Kirkcaldy, drunk, hours before the rape.
This was a “relatively short distance” from the woman’s home and the house of a couple from whom he stole a wine decanter.
Around a fortnight later, McKenzie was traced.
It emerged he had also broken into the elderly couple’s home shortly before the sex attack on June 25 last year.
After being charged, McKenzie stated to police: “Allegation of rape? That will ruin me.
“Are the papers going to know my name?”
The hearing was told McKenzie lived at the time between his brother’s house in Glenrothes and his girlfriend’s home in Falkirk.
McKenzie was remanded in custody by judge Lord Boyd of Duncansby and is due to be sentenced on December 20 in Edinburgh.
