A former guest on the Jeremy Kyle Show is facing a lengthy jail sentence after he was found guilty of committing a series of rapes on women and teenagers at locations across Scotland.
Daniel Fuller was convicted of raping four victims in sex attacks in the Highlands, Dundee and West Lothian over a 13-year period.
He also tried to rape a fifth victim.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that the father-of-eight had appeared on the former daytime tabloid talk show as he sought help for his sexual behaviour.
Fuller, 38, formerly of Marchwood Avenue, Bathgate, in West Lothian, had denied a string of and allegations during a trial but was found guilty of the five charges of rape, one of attempted rape and one of sexual assault that he faced.
A judge told him: “You have been found guilty of seven very serious offences against five women. Individually these would be serious, collectively they are all the more so.”
‘Distressing evidence’
Lord Richardson told jurors after the verdicts were returned: “You have had to listen to some really difficult and distressing evidence.”
Defence solicitor advocate Iain McSporran QC said that “only a significant custodial sentence” could meet the seriousness of the offending.
Fuller’s first victim was a 14-year-old girl whom he drove from her home near Inverness to the Kyle of Lochalsh, in Ross-shire, before subjecting her to rape in the back of his car.
Fuller later went on to rape her a second time after they met in Edinburgh between April 2007 and April 2008.
His second victim was a 16-year-old who was subjected to repeated rapes at a house in Fauldhouse, in West Lothian, and in car at Dalkeith, in Midlothian, between September 2012 and February 2013.
A third woman was repeatedly sexually assaulted by between Janaury 2018 and April 2019 in West Lothian and on one occasion he tried to rape her after she fell asleep. He also raped another women at a house in Bathgate in August 2020 after went to sleep.
‘My body just froze’
Fuller’s final victim was attacked and raped at her home in Dundee on September 22, 2020, after he had offered to collect her to take her to a party. The woman said she had been drinking and listening to music.
She had come across him through a web chat site and he said there was going to be a party at his house with others who used the same website. She said: “He said he was on his way to Dundee to pick me up.”
The woman said: “I thought it would be good to get to know other people from the app and stuff.”
She said Fuller arrived at her home and they went into her bedroom as she was packing bags to take with her.
She said Fuller asked to borrow her charger but he grabbed her and pushed her onto the bed.
Fuller quickly pulled off her leggings and pants. She said: “I didn’t say anything, but I can’t remember if he said anything.
“My body just froze because I didn’t know what to say or do. I felt really scared and my whole body just froze.”
Sought help from Jeremy Kyle
The woman said that she was frightened and went along with what Fuller said and got in his car to travel to his home, but began messaging a friend asking for help.
She said: “I was asking him to phone the police for me because I was in his car and I couldn’t really phone the police and I was scared.”
She said she eventually managed to find the courage to demand that Fuller let her out of the car and he stopped to allow her to leave. She was later found by police in a distressed state.
Fuller maintained during his evidence that the victims were either lying or mistaken in their testimony.
Advocate depute Michelle Brannagan said that Fuller had preyed upon women who had “a degree of vulnerability”. She said he was a man, who by his own admission, had such an issue with his sexual behaviour that he sought help from the Jeremy Kyle Show.
Sentence was adjourned on Fuller for the preparation of a background report and he was remanded in custody.
