JAMIE STARRS – LANARKSHIRE

❌JAMIE STARRS – LANARKSHIRE❌

A man who raped a teenager five months before she was murdered by her brother has been jailed for 10 years and six months.

Double rapist Jamie Starrs, 20, pounced on vulnerable Amber Gibson, aged 16, at his home in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, months before her death at the hands of her brother.

The 16-year-old was sexually assaulted and murdered in November 2021 by her brother Connor Gibson, who was convicted last month following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

Starrs was found guilty of raping Amber following a trial at the High Court in Lanark in July and was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh.

He was also convicted of raping another teenager in Bothwell, South Lanarkshire in May 2021.

The 20-year-old was also found guilty of a breach of bail conditions, and of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Sentencing Starrs, who appeared via video link from custody, the judge said: “You have been convicted of appalling crimes against two innocent teenage girls and you have been assessed as being of very high risk of sexual violence on release. I am required to take into account your age and difficult upbringing – however, the crimes remain serious and grave, and I will impose an extended sentence.”

He said that he would have ordered 11 years to be served in custody but reduced this to 10 and a half years behind bars to take into account the time that Starrs has spent on remand.

He has been placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely

Clare’s law applies