Rapist facing life sentence for sex attacks

A RAPIST who prowled Edinburgh making sexual advances to lone women has been threatened with a life sentence.

Martin Taylor, 35, was jailed for seven years in 1998 for raping an 18-year-old Canadian student.

Yesterday he admitted indecent assault, breach of the peace and breaching a court order not to approach women, on April 23 this year.

Judge Lord Matthews ordered background reports on Taylor which could lead to him being kept under supervision for life.

The court heard that he sexually assaulted one woman as she walked home, tried to force his way into another woman's flat and pestered a group of women at a taxi rank.

At the time, Taylor of East Craigs, Edinburgh, was subject to three bail orders relating to allegations of breach of the peace and sex attacks.

Lord Matthews remanded Taylor in custody.