A CHILLING serial rapist told a sobbing victim who pleaded with him to stop 'You'll enjoy it eventually.”

Steven Stalley, 31, from Paisley, was found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow of raping three women and then sending two of them abusive texts.

He also convicted of stalking a further nine women by phone after demanding their mobile numbers during brief encounters in the street or on buses and sexually assaulted another woman.

Stalley would then text and call the women for months becoming more and more threatening. He left a voicemail for one women saying: “I'm gonnae slit your throat.”

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Judge Tom Hughes told Stalley: “You approached young women when they were alone and forced them to give you their phone numbers.

“You persisted in making their lives a misery. They had to block your number and change their lifestyles. They were genuinely living in fear.

“Women should not have to be subjected to this course of conduct. This type of behaviour will never be tolerated by the courts.

“The witnesses in this case had to relive a dark place in time when you occupied their lives.”

Stalley claimed that all the sexual activity was consensual and described an evening when her throttled one woman and told her she was going to die when she said she was leaving as “a good night in with pizza.”

Stalley chatted to one of his victims, who was drunk, outside a nightclub and persuaded her to let him and two friends go back to her house.

The woman went to bed after putting on her pyjamas over her clothes and went to bed believing all three men had left.

However, Stalley had hidden himself in her home and as she slept stripped her naked and then raped her.

She said: "I woke up naked and he was having sex with me. "

The woman told the court that Stalley had tied her dog to a radiator during the rape.

Another woman told the court she wept before, during and after being raped by Stalley.

She said: "When I said I wanted to end the relationship. He raped me and said: 'You'll enjoy it eventually."

Despite her crying and pleading with Stallley he ignored her and carried on raping her.

He bombarded other women he had met at bus stops and persuaded to exchange phone numbers with him with hundreds of texts and calls.

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The offences were committed at various addresses in Renfrew, Paisley and Glasgow between March 2007 and March 2018.

Prosecutor Murdoch McTaggart said: “Mr Stalley was in all cases asserting his dominance over his victims. He had sex with them when they said no. He badgered them with texts. He was belittling and controlling towards them.

“It didn't matter if any victim who he raped said no he was having sex anyway. If a woman said she did not want contact with the accused she was bombarded with texts."

One victim told of going out with a friend and being ordered back home by Stalley, only to find him having sex with another woman in the common close.

In evidence said: “The sex was always 100 per cent consensual. I didn't rape anyone.”

He also denied bombarding five victims with threatening and abusive texts and voice mail, although he pled guilty to stalking another six women by phone.

The court heard that whenever Stalley met a woman he was interested in sexually he would demand her phone number after chatting for a while.

He would ensure he was not given a false number by testing while the woman was there to make sure it rang when he called it.

Judges Hughes ordered a background report and a risk assessment of the danger Stalley poses to women and deferred sentence until next month.

Defence QC Brian McConnachie will give his plea in mitigation then.