Tinder rapist facing life term after putting victim through a horrific ordeal

Daily Record

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Rian Hood was found guilty of rape and engaging in a course of abusive behaviour.
A serial sex attacker is facing a life sentence after being convicted of raping a woman he met on Tinder.
Rian Hood put the victim through a horrific ordeal during a campaign of abuse.
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Hood, a 34-year-old ex-clothes shop supervisor, denied being ­physically or sexually violent – even claiming in a bizarre video clip that the woman had, instead, hurt him.
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He is already serving a seven-and-a-half-year jail term imposed in 2022 for raping and abusing four other women. Hood was due to be sentenced for this latest crime as he returned to the dock last week.
But judge Lord Colbeck continued the case again for a full risk assessment to be carried out on the sex attacker.
This could ­eventually lead to an Order for ­Lifelong Restriction being imposed on him.
He is ­scheduled to be back in court in September.
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Hood, formerly of the city's Knights­wood, told jurors how he was initially in contact with the woman via Tinder.
He stated he had never used the dating app before as 'you hear all these horror stories'. It was not until early 2020 that the pair physically met. He had been aware at the time of allegations made by one of the victims in the later 2022 trial.
Hood claimed he told the woman in this latest case about those accusations.
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He said there was 'not much reaction' from her.
Hood went on to move in with the woman and her mother at their home in the west of the city during one of the Covid ­lockdowns in 2020.
Hood insisted there was 'seldom' any sexual contact between him and the victim.
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The woman, however, told how he stood on her face and then forced himself upon her during one attack.
The abuse also took place at other flats in north Glasgow.
His lawyer, Frances Connor, asked him at one stage: 'Any truth that you wanted cocaine so you could have sex for hours and hours?'
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He refuted this, insisting the drug would have had the ­'opposite effect' on him. Miss Connor also asked if anything had occurred without the woman's consent. Hood again denied this.
The attacker was also ­physically abusive, with claims he had hurled Chinese spring rolls at his victim.
He instead alleged the woman had previously 'erupted' at him after confronting him about cheating on her.
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Jurors were shown a mobile phone clip recorded by the woman where a drunk and topless Hood claimed he could not walk as she had 'broke' his toe by allegedly throwing a towel at him.
In the previous trial, Hood had been convicted of 10 charges of similar abuse against four women between 2010 and 2020.
The jury in that trial heard how Hood degraded and controlled his partners, tracking their movements and blocking their contact with friends and family.
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Jade Doolan, who was raped and abused by Hood, previously told the Record she wanted to see tougher sentences for men like Hood who terrorise their partners.
She bravely waived her anonymity to say: 'Every day I go over the whole thing telling myself what I could have done to make myself safe. I am tortured everyday by what he did but I'm pleased he's been found guilty and I hope the courts punish him harshly for the women he has harmed.
'I was told by another victim who was in court that he'd cried like a baby as he was taken away – I wasn't surprised. I always knew he would react like that. It's called justice.'
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At the previous trial Fraser Gibson, Scotland's national procurator fiscal for High Court Sexual Offences, said: 'Rian Hood is a habitual domestic abuser.
'Women who became involved with him quickly found themselves subjected to appalling sexual and physical violence, until they lost all confidence in themselves.
'I would commend them for their courage in speaking out.'