HIGH COURT: Sex attacker jailed for seven years after 13 year campaign of abuse including in Inverness
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A SEX attacker who left his victims feeling "trapped" and "worthless" has been jailed for seven years.
Allen Alexander-Rouse preyed on the two women during a near 13-year campaign of abuse.
The 38 year-old denied the accusations insisting he had instead been "loving" towards them.
Alexander-Rouse was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow.
He had earlier been unanimously convicted after a trial in Inverness of repeatedly raping both women as well as indecently assaulting one of them.
The crimes occurred in the Highland capital as well as Falkirk, Stirlingshire between January 2006 and November 2019.
Judge Douglas Brown told Alexander-Rouse: "You intimidated them to such an extent that they were too frightened to leave you.
"The first victim spoke of how volatile you were and the lack of any apparent boundaries to your behaviour.
"She felt trapped and how she lived each day to survive.
"She also felt imprisoned for the 12 or so years she knew you.
"The second woman said you made her feel like an empty shell and that words could not describe how worthless she felt.
"In her victim impact statement, she said your sexual abuse dehumanised her and that, no matter the sentence, it will never make up for what you did."
Alexander-Rouse, of Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, will be supervised for a further three years on his release.
He was further put on the sex offenders list and was also hit with a non-harassment order banning him from contacting either victim.
Both were for an indefinite period.
Jurors heard how Alexander-Rouse had initially been friendly towards the women before becoming "possessive, controlling and abusive".
Iain Paterson, defending, said the sex attacker had shown "some remorse" for what happened.
But, Judge Brown remarked that had "come late in the day" as there was no evidence of that even last month while being interviewed for a pre-sentencing report.
