A SEX attacker who raped a woman on Valentine's Day is behind bars.

Gilbert Murray subjected the victim to a horror ordeal - amid claims he had also told her he had killed her pet rabbit.

The 29-year-old later raped another woman after demanding she have sex with him.

Murray was found guilty on Friday of five charges following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

The crimes spanned between December 2012 and January 2019 at different addresses in Clydebank.

He already had a criminal record including a conviction for a domestic assault.

Murray, of Alexandria, was remanded in custody pending sentencing next month.

Murray raped the first woman on February 14, 2016, when he tied her wrists to a radiator.

The rape came after years of physical attacks on the woman, starting on Christmas Day 2012.

Prosecutors said this victim was kicked, punched, pushed down stairs, stamped upon and grabbed by the neck.

A further charge had alleged that Murray told the woman he had fatally harmed her rabbit and had tried to control who she could contact - but this charge was withdrawn during the trial.

Murray put the second woman through a similar ordeal.

As well as being raped between August 2018 and August 2019, the thug was also physically violent to her, including choking her.

Prosecutors withdrew a charge alleging that Murray told the second woman he had "access to a gun" and that he had threatened to shoot her.

The jury found Murray guilty of raping the first victim as well as assaulting her to her injury.

He was convicted of two charges of raping the second woman and assaulting her to her severe injury.

Mark Moir KC, defending, said Murray had previously served a jail term, but that his previous convictions were mainly for road traffic matters and anti-social behaviour.

But the advocate told Judge John McCormick: "One that may cause some concern is from October 2019 relating to an assault to injury with a domestic aggravation."

Murray was put on the sex offenders register.

Judge McCormick told him: "Bail will be revoked and you will be remanded in custody."

After the verdicts, a woman among a group of Murray's supporters said to him: "We know that you did not do it."