A SHOPKEEPER has been convicted of raping a vulnerable woman in the back room of his store.

Shamas Pervaiz preyed on his victim having earlier asked if she had breast implants.

The married 52-year-old struck at the grocers in Glasgow's Ruchill between June 2015 and June 2016.

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Pervaiz denied touching the victim - who was a customer and half his age.

Forensic evidence on a couch linked the predator to the attacks - but he claimed that was where he and his wife had previously tried for a baby.

Pervaiz is now behind bars after he was found guilty of two rape charges after a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

Jurors heard how the victim was classed as vulnerable due to a serious accident as a child.

Her evidence was via a police statement given after her ordeal.

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The sex attacks occurred in a back room described as "grubby" and "unclean".

The victim recalled Pervaiz's "hairy legs" and seeing customers on the CCTV waiting at the counter as her attacker took advantage of her.

She repeatedly asked him to stop - but at one stage he stated: "Two minutes".

Pervaiz - who lives in a large house in the city's Crookston - gave evidence during the trial.

He denied telling the victim she was "pretty" or asking if she had breast implants.

Pervaiz claimed the woman shopped in his store, but was "not a regular customer".

His advocate Louise Arrol put to him: "The jury has heard serious allegations being made by the woman. Are you lying?"

Pervaiz: "Why would I lie? I have not done anything wrong."

The court heard the woman's DNA was on a settee believed to be where the attacks occurred.

Pervaiz could not explain why that was. He insisted any similar evidence linking him to the couch was because him and his wife previously had sex on it.

Prosecutor David Dickson had urged jurors to believe the woman including her "accurate" description of the dirty back room.

He added in his closing speech: "Is it credible that she made all this up?"

The court was told Pervaiz had ran the store since 2008, but has since left and latterly owned a clothes shop.

Lord Weir deferred sentencing until September 28 in Dundee.

The judge told Pervaiz: "You have been convicted of two serious offences against the same woman at your business premises.

"You will be remanded in custody meantime."