A SCOTS social worker has been jailed after being convicted of raping and sexually assaulting several women over the course of almost two decades.
Thomas Proctor was charged with raping two women and sexually assaulting another while employed as a social worker in Alloa, Clackmannanshire between January 2002 and August 2019.
The 43-year-old from Maryhill, Glasgow, was found guilty by the High Court in Glasgow of 11 charges.
The charges include raping one woman while she was in hospital and assaulting another woman after she drank water with an unknown substance in it.
Proctor, who denied the accusations, was also found to have raped and made threats towards the first woman in a flat in Lanarkshire.
He was also convicted of raping and making threats to a third woman in Fife and Lanarkshire.
The vile social worker was also found to have threatened to remove the children of two of his victims from their care.
Proctor was handed to an 11-year extended sentence, with Judge William Gallacher declaring that eight of the years would be behind bars and the final three would be under supervision.
Gallacher described Proctor’s actions as “simply disgraceful.”
He added: “It is difficult to figure out the appropriate sentence due to the level of abuse carried out over a period of time. I will impose a significant penalty.
“You will have grasped that because of the gravity of this case, there is only one thing I can do.”
Prosecutor Alan Parfery declared in his closing speech that Proctor was “calculated in a predatory fashion”.
Parfery said to Proctor in reference to one of his victims: “You told her that you held such a job and how the system worked.
“That she should be intimate with you if she wanted to keep her child. The cruellest of cruel threats.”
Mr Parfery later added that there was “only one person” who knew which words to use “for a clear and devastating outcome”.
