Predatory rapist gets five years

Dyer's victim did not report the rape for seven months

A man who raped a drunken 15-year-old girl he picked up in Glasgow city centre has been jailed for five years.

Judge Lord Dawson told 42-year-old Michael Dyer: "I regard your behaviour as predatory. I consider you to be a danger to the female sex."

Dyer had denied raping the teenager but was found guilty after trial.

At the High Court in Glasgow, Lord Dawson ordered Dyer to be supervised for three years on release and placed him on the sex offenders register.

He said: "It is absolutely disgraceful that you, a man of 42, took advantage of a 15-year-old girl.

"You took advantage of the fact she was under the influence of drink."

Given drugs

The court heard Dyer and his nephew met the girl and her 16-year-old friend at a bus stop near Central Station and talked them into going to a party with them.

When they got to the house in Knightswood no-one else was there.

The court heard that Dyer did not stay in the council house but lived with his wife at another address.

The court heard the girl, who had drunk 10 to 14 vodkas, was given the drugs ecstasy and cannabis by Dyer.

When she lay down on a bed feeling unwell, he raped her.

The girl did not report the rape for seven months because she was scared her mother would find out she had been out drinking.