Kevin Hood, the Edinburgh Rapist, who bound a lady to a bed shortly before perpetrating a brutal rape has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Kevin Hood, 34, assaulted a female, whose identity is protected for legal reasons, at a location in Edinburgh in August 2021. Last month, the top court in the city heard how Hood subjected the woman to a harrowing experience during the assault.
He insisted on obtaining her cell phone password to ascertain her recent communications. The court was informed that Kevin Hood subsequently obstructed her exit from a bedroom and secured her ankles and wrists to a bed, thereby confining her against her will.
Kevin Hood subsequently began to strangle the woman before assaulting her sexually. However, Hood’s victim had sufficient courage to report to the police, who initiated an investigation into his actions.
Detectives then found enough evidence against Kevin Hood to bring him to justice. On Wednesday, the court heard how Hood had told a social worker tasked with finding out more about his background that he used sex workers.
He also told the social worker that he liked to indulge in sex which included restraints and strangulations. Judge Lord Arthurson told Kevin Hood that as he had been assessed at being at high risk of re-offending, the only sentence available to the court was prison.
Lord Arthurson also told Kevin Hood that the risk he posed to women in general was such that hed have been supervised by the authorities for 10 years following his release from custody. Passing sentence, Lord Arthurson said: This crime is one of the worst that Ive had to deal with in my judicial career.
This was a sustained assault using sickening acts of violence undertaken with the purpose of controlling your victim. Given the circumstances of the offence, the only disposal that can be in the circumstances is the imposition of a extremely long custodial one.
The sentence being imposed is to punish you, reflect societys revulsion at such crimes and to deter others from committing them. The story emerged on last month when a jury found Hood, who lives in Edinburgh city centre, guilty of raping the woman.
Kevin Hood had pleaded guilty at an earlier stage in proceedings to charges of subjecting the woman he raped to threatening behaviour. He also pleaded guilty to assaulting another woman and subjecting her to threatening behaviour in 2018.
Following conviction, prosecutor Richard Goddard KC told Lord Arthurson that prior to his arrest, Kevin Hood was unemployed. Mr Goddard also said that the accused has appeared in court on previous occasions.
He added: The accused has a significant criminal record. On Wednesday, Lord Arthurson also placed Hood on the Sex Offenders Register for life.
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