Inverness drug trafficking rapist made £6k from life of crime
A drug trafficking rapist serving time for subjecting teenagers to sex attacks made more than £6000 from his life of crime.
Adam Pentacost (34) used force to commit a series of rapes involving two much younger victims during assaults in Inverness.
Pentacost did not wear a condom during the attacks on the teenagers and one contracted a sexual infection after being raped by him.
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A judge gave Pentacost 11 years for the sexual assaults at the High Court in Edinburgh earlier this year. Lord Doherty told him: "Your conduct was predatory with significant elements of planning on your part."
Lord Doherty added: "You have expressed no remorse for these offences and continue to deny your guilt.”
During proceedings Pentacost, also of Inverness, admitted to being concerned in the supply of cannabis between June 2020 and August 2022 at an address in his home city and elsewhere.
He also admitted being concerned in the supply of the Class A drug cocaine between January and August 2022.
Earlier today, prosecutors returned to court using proceeds of crime legislation to confiscate cash from Pentacost.
Prosecutor Bryan Heaney told judge Jane Farquharson KC that the accused had made £6816 from illegal activities. However, he only had £858.97 available to hand over at this point in time.
Judge Farquharson then ordered that the £858.97 be handed over to the authorities within three months.
During proceedings, jurors heard how Pentacost had denied a series of charges during an earlier trial but was convicted of two drugs crimes and five sexual offences.
He was convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old girl at a lane in Inverness on an occasion between April and July in 2021 and subjected the victim to a rape after she was 16 the following year at another location in the Highland capital.
He threw her into a bed before biting her during the ordeal. The victim told the court that she was scared of Pentacost, who had supplied her with drugs.
Pentacost raped his second teenage victim on three occasions at an address in Inverness between September 2021 and July 2022. During two of the assaults he bit her.
The court heard that police recovered cannabis and cocaine during a search of a property at Tomnahurich Street, in Inverness, where Pentacost was present.
Pentacost told the court he was a regular user of cannabis and after accepting he was supplying it and cocaine said: "It's not something I am proud of."
He said he got into debt and "got involved with the wrong sort of people".
Defence counsel Lorenzo Alonzi said that although Pentacost has a record it was not for similar offending. He said there was hope that after maturing during his prison sentence he will emerge and pursue a life without further offending.
Pentacost was placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for an indefinite period following his sentencing.
He was also ordered to be supervised by the authorities for two years following his release from custody.
