Rapist who struck again shortly after release is locked up

Mar 3 2011 by Chris Clements, Hamilton Advertiser

A DOUBLE rapist formerly of Bothwell was jailed for life this week.

At the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday (Wednesday), 24-year-old John Daly was told he must serve at least seven years’ imprisonment before he can be considered for parole.

The predator was jailed after admitting to the rape of a woman in Rutherglen last April.

The attack took place just months after he had been released from prison early after serving time for the rape of a 17-year-old girl in a Bothwell graveyard in 2004.

The court heard earlier that, during the fresh attack, the former Bell College student also battered and threatened to kill the woman to make her comply with his sexual demands.

Daly walked out afterwards claiming he was going to take his own life but instead went to the cinema and had dinner with his friends.

His 26-year-old victim, a trainee teacher, met Daly while on a shopping trip with family in Glasgow city centre on April 8.

Later that evening, she met Daly and his friends at a city centre chip shop.

Daly and one of his pals asked the women back to the accused’s flat in Barnflat Street, Rutherglen, and they agreed, believing there was a party there.

However, Daly later raped the woman, and forced her to carry out a sex act on him.

In 2005, Daly, formerly of Woodlands Crescent, Bothwell, had been jailed for seven years and three months in 2005 for raping a 17-year-old schoolgirl in a deserted church graveyard in the village’s Green Street in February, 2004. He was 17 at the time of the offence.

At court yesterday, Judge Lady Dorrian said Daly posed a high risk of reoffending.

Sentencing him to life in prison, she added that term also took into account his early release from prison at the time of the offence.