Jailed: Kriss Strachan, 18, raped a 91-year-old woman in her own home during a horrific attack
Source: A teenager has been jailed for 12 years after he attacked and raped a 91-year-old woman in her own home.
Kriss Strachan, 18, forced his way into the pensioner's house in and repeatedly punched her during the horrific sex attack.
After his mother discovered what he had done, he handed himself in to police saying: 'It was me. I cannot believe I done it. I'm scum.'
His victim has been left so traumatised that she has abandoned the home she lived in for half a century, and frequently tells relatives that she wants to die.
Strachan, who was just 17 at the time of the attack, pleaded guilty to serious sexual assault was today given a 19-year sentence, including 12 years in prison and another seven on licence.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Strachan had been drinking heavily before he knocked on the door of the woman - who lived near him but did not know him - at 7am.
He barged in saying he 'wanted sex', and the elderly woman tried to fight him off, repeatedly pushing him away and scratching his face while shouting and banging on the wall in an attempt to raise the alarm.
But Strachan told her to stop, threatening to kill her if she did not, and then put his hands round her neck and punched her face and body.
The court heard the victim managed to get to a neighbour's house following the assault and said: 'I have been attacked, he had sex with me.'
Strachan's mother heard that the pensioner had been attacked by a man in a green top, and when she saw a similar item of clothing in her house she confronted her son, telling him to hand
She has since kicked him out of the family home and has had no contact with him.
The victim's daughter said in a statement that the elderly woman had had her confidence destroyed by the attack, and no longer wanted to live.
She said: 'This crime has completely destroyed my mum who up until that day lived on her own, did her own housework, shopping, socialising and enjoyed her own independence. Now she is totally dependent on me and talks every day about how she wishes she was dead.
'My mum had lived in her home since 1968, and at the age of 90 has been forced out of her home and away from her friends and people she knew.
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