TINDER RAPIST FACING A LIFE TERM

Beast with history of preying on women is found guilty of latest vile assaults

- BY GRANT McCABE

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.

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.

He was found guilty of rape and engaging in a course of abusive behaviour following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

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.

Hood, formerly of the city's Knightswood, told jurors how he was initially in contact with the woman via Tinder.