A young sex predator raped a fellow pupil in a school classroom.

Zineelabibine Abbood violently attacked the girl during a lunch break at the Glasgow secondary on November 29, 2019.

Despite her repeated protests, Abbood only stopped when a teacher came into the music room.

She found the traumatised victim "visibly upset" and in tears.

Abbood stood trial at the High Court in Glasgow charged with rape.

He said the girl had instigated any sexual activity - and that she had made the accusations because she was "embarrassed" about what he said happened.

But, despite his claims, jurors convicted Abbood.

He was bailed pending sentencing but is likely to be locked up when he returns to the dock next month.

Jurors heard how the pair - both in their mid-teens at the time - had initially been playing guitars in the music classroom.

Abbood told his lawyer Paul Mullen that it was the girl who then made moves towards him before there was sexual contact.

Mr Mullen put to him: "Did you want to happen what happened that day?"

Abbood said: "Yes, with her consent."

Abbood claimed they then heard a teacher coming into the room and they stopped.

He told jurors: "I remember (the girl) saying she had had really bad news and that I was comforting her.

"I was saying (to the teacher) I was sorry and did not mean to be rude by being in the room."

Mr Mullen asked him did he know why the victim said what occurred was not consensual.

Abbood said: "Maybe because the teacher found out and her friends were teasing her. She must have felt embarrassed."

But prosecutors stated it was there Abbood instead had raped the teenager which included him biting, pulling groping her to her injury.

It was stated Abbood had pestered her about performing a sex act - and that he went on to insist he would "show" her.

Advocate depute Ruaraidh Ferguson quizzed him about the teacher coming into the classroom.

Mr Ferguson said: "She said that when she entered (the girl) was visibly upset, eyes red, face puffy and, formed the view, that she had been crying for some time."

Abbood replied he reckoned the victim was "fine" although he had "not been paying attention" to her face at the time.

The prosecutor went on to put to him at one stage: "Not the case throughout this incident, she told you, in various ways, that she was not consenting?

"The girl said 'no' to you multiple times?"

Abbood said: "She did not say 'no'. She consented."

Judge Thomas Welsh KC agreed to continue Abbood's bail pending sentencing on June 14 in Edinburgh.