A SEX predator who raped a 16-year-old stranger has been jailed for seven years.

David Hendry, 39, plied the vulnerable girl with drink and drugs before attacking her near a children's nursery in Glasgow's Kinning Park on October 25, 2021.

Hendry struck just nine days after he had been freed on bail by a sheriff for an unrelated matter.

He was today sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow having earlier been convicted of rape.

It emerged he already had 73 previous convictions - including 15 for violence.

The girl was attacked having initially stopped Hendry in Glasgow city centre to ask him for a cigarette.

There were later concerns from others about her whereabouts - Hendry had instead taken her back to the area of the city where he stayed at the time.

Sentencing, Judge Douglas Brown said Hendry was more than twice the victim's age and that he had led her to a "secluded spot" where he raped her.

He went on: "She was extremely distressed shortly afterwards and she remained so for two to three hours, repeatedly saying: 'Why me?'.

"The commission of the crime involved a significant amount of planning.

"You caused her to become intoxicated, you interfered with attempts to get her home and took her some distance to the place where you raped her."

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The judge remarked Hendry's criminal convictions were of "extraordinary length" for someone of his age.

He committed the sex attack having been granted bail at Glasgow Sheriff Court on May 21, 2021, and then again at Hamilton Sheriff Court on October 15 - just over a week before this latest crime.

Hendry was put on the sex offenders list indefinitely.

A non-harassment order was also imposed banning him from approaching or contacting the victim.