Evil murderer brutally raped two women and survived for ten years

A murderer has now been convicted of raping two women in violent attacks over a period of ten years.

Steven Wilson has been through several prisons and psychiatric hospitals since his conviction for stabbing a man outside a London pub in 1988. He is also notorious for being on the run in 2012.

The 60-year-old is now back in prison after being convicted at the High Court in Glasgow of these latest rape offences. He first raped a woman between July 1999 and July 2000, including a brutal rape in a tower block in Knightswood, Glasgow.

Wilson also held a gun to the woman’s head, brandished a knife, locked her in the apartment and destroyed her mobile phone. The second woman was repeatedly raped between 2005 and 2009 – including in a van on an industrial site in Springburn, Saxony.

Wilson tortured this traumatised victim in a Renfrew flat. She was beaten, slapped, threatened and held against her will. Both women later bravely revealed to police how much they had suffered at the hands of Wilson. He was found guilty on four counts, including assault, rape and kidnapping each victim.

After the verdict, defence counsel Iain McSporran KC said he would not ask that Wilson be “subjected to psychiatric detention”. He said he intended to “advise the court on a prison sentence” and “nothing else” regarding Wilson. Lord Fairley ordered the detention as the case in Edinburgh was adjourned until July 24, the Daily Record reported.

Wilson was found guilty of manslaughter by diminished responsibility at Knightsbridge Crown Court following the death of a man in 1988. In 2012, Wilson absconded after failing to return from an unaccompanied holiday at Leverndale Hospital in Glasgow.

There was an outcry after it was revealed he had been at large for two weeks before the public was warned about his dangerous past. It only came to light when a Scottish official accidentally sent an email to the media talking about Wilson, who had also previously escaped from the State Hospital in Carstairs.