A Perthshire care worker is facing a lengthy jail term after for an 18-month campaign of abuse against a woman, including raping her.
Taylor Whyte, now 21, was a teenager when he subjected the 19-year-old to the rape attack in New Alyth.
The High Court at Stirling heard he had abused the woman at his home and at an address in Angus.
During the abuse Whyte repeatedly made derogatory remarks towards the woman about her appearance and mental health.
He also recorded her while she was upset and posted the video to social media.
He took photos of her while she was naked without her consent.
He also repeatedly tried to contact her on social media, despite her blocking him and paid another person to contact her on his behalf.
The court heard of one particularly degrading act he involved her in and also heard he orally raped the woman on one occasion.
‘Crying game’
In pre-recorded evidence the victim said: “He’d play a game – how many times can I make [her] cry?
“That would be his form of entertainment for the night.”
She said he called her “PD rape victim”- she said the letters “PD” meant “borderline personality disorder”.
Whyte, a care worker at the time who more recently worked as a mechanic, said in evidence what was alleged either did not happen or the woman had consented.
After a five-day trial a jury, by majority, took more than four hours to find him guilty of rape.
A jury found Whyte unanimously guilty of the domestic abuse charge.
He will be sentenced at the High Court in Livingston next month and was remanded in custody in the interim.
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