A high risk rapist who carried out a sex attack on a vulnerable woman who was found dead hours after the canalside assault was given a life sentence.
Lars Pedersen, 38, preyed on Alison McAllister after coming across her at The Forth and Clyde Canal in the Maryhill area of Glasgow.
Pedersen encountered his victim when she was sitting alone in a distressed and intoxicated state and subjected her to the rape.