A sex predator who subjected two teenage girls to an “appalling catalogue” of rape and abuse has been jailed for 10 years.
Michael McRobie, 34, struck one of his victims with a whip during an attack.
At the High Court in Edinburgh on Monday, Judge Michael O’Grady KC said: “It is a statement of the obvious to say that you have been convicted of the most appalling catalogue of offences.
“They amply demonstrate that you have a sinister, compulsive and deeply dangerous interest in children and adolescent girls.”
McRobie, of Kirkcaldy in Fife, had denied a series of charges at an earlier trial but was convicted of 12 offences – including six of rape.
All of the crimes were committed in Fife.
The judge stated: “It is clear that when you behaved as you did, you were neither stupid nor unthinking nor caught up in the moment.
“It is clear that you are and were intelligent and articulate. It is clear that you knew precisely what you were doing.
“Indeed, what you were doing was the product of cunning and manipulation and forethought.
“One of these girls was a child and the other little more. Both in their own way were vulnerable, something you knew only too well and exploited to the full.
“You are nothing more or less than a predator.”
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McRobie began assaulting and abusing his first victim in March 2016 when she was aged 16. During attacks on her over several months, he subjected her to rape, restrained her and throttled her.
He subjected a second girl to more prolonged abuse, which also started in March 2016 when she was aged 13.
She was raped repeatedly and during abuse was hit on the body with his hands and a whip.
The court heard that McRobie had possessed indecent images of children and also extreme pornography of bestiality.
Judge O’Grady added: “The damage you have done to these young women is incalculable and I have no doubt its shadow will hang over them for the foreseeable future, perhaps forever.”
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As well as the 10-year prison sentence, McRobie was additionally ordered to be supervised for four years after being released back into the community.
He has also been banned from contacting his victims.
