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James Delaney

Edinburgh pizza chef raped woman on Christmas Day while out on bail

A former Edinburgh pizza chef who raped a woman on Christmas Day while on bail as he awaited trial for another serious sexual assault charge has been convicted for a second time.

Lee Ibbotson ignored his victim’s pleas to ‘stop’ during the horrific incident between December 25 and 26 in 2019.

In documents submitted at the High Court in Glasgow, Judge Lord Summers deemed the 26-year-old as “presenting a high risk of reconviction for sexual offences”.

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