Overview
- Glasgow High Court imposed a 12-year extended sentence comprising nine years in custody followed by three years of supervision, and he was placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
- The judge said Mihai-Nicolae Patran poses a real danger to women and expressed hope he will be deported to Romania.
- He raped a then 27-year-old doctor in a Mitchell Street doorway in Glasgow for about 40 minutes on November 26, 2023.
- He was also convicted of exposing himself and performing a sex act on a Perth–Stirling train on October 22, 2023, and of sexually assaulting a woman in a courtroom that autumn.
- Prosecutors credited coordinated evidence from CCTV and mobile phone material supported by victims’ accounts, while his counsel said he maintains his innocence and offered no apology.