An Iranian Kurd was jailed for five years on Wednesday after raping a sleeping woman in a sex attack committed while he was freed under three separate court bail orders.
Sharam Faraje assaulted the victim at her home in the Cathcart area of Glasgow before attacking police officers after he was detained. The woman later died but her evidence, given in a statement to police, proved vital in convicting her attacker at a trial.
A judge told Faraje, 40, at the High Court in Edinburgh: "Rape is always a serious crime." Judge Simon Collins KC said: "She is now sadly deceased. The jury must have accepted what she said to the police in her statement."
