'Predator' jailed for sex attacks

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A "sexual predator" who abducted and sexually assaulted two women has been jailed for 13 years at the High Court.

Bus driver Irfan Hussain, 28, of St George's Cross, Glasgow, was found guilty of abducting and raping a 20-year-old in Pollok Park in 2001.

He was also found guilty of abducting and attempting to rape a 19-year-old woman in a bus depot in Victoria Road on 1 April, 2005.

Lord Hardie said: "It is clear women have to be protected from you."

Hussain will be monitored for six years on his release.

Lord Hardie added: "These sexual offences indicate that you are a sexual predator.

"Women are entitled to feel safe as they walk the streets of Glasgow and go about their business without being subjected to sexual attacks as you did on these unfortunate victims."

'Gun threat'

His first victim was attacked on 10 December, 2001.

Hussain offered to drive her home after she left a nightclub on Sauchiehall Street looking for a taxi.

She was driven to a car park in Pollok Park where she was raped.

In evidence, she said: "Looking back now I don't know why I got into a stranger's car, but I did. I had never done it before.

"I was crying and saying I wanted to go home but he told me it would be alright. I was scared and I just wanted to get out."

The second victim was waiting for a bus on Hope Street when she was dragged into a car.

She said she began punching the doors and trying to open them in a bid to escape.

The car was driven to Larkfield bus depot in the south side of Glasgow, Hussain then tried to rape the woman.

He warned her he had a gun, made her perform a sex act on him and then he performed a sex act himself.

The victim said she was then driven to St George's Cross and told to get out of the car.

Police investigating the attacked compared it with details of the 2001 rape and arrested Hussain after DNA recovered from both incidents proved he was the perpetrator.