Man convicted of raping alleged murder victim Amber Niven five months before she was found dead
Amber identified her attacker after being shown a board of photographs by police.
Judge Thomas Welsh KC deferred sentencing until 8 August at the High Court in Glasgow and remanded Starrs in custody.Starrs, who is being held in Polmont, was placed on the sex offenders register.Meanwhile, at a trial over Amber's alleged murder at the High Court in Glasgow, a police officer said she found stained items of clothing in a wheelie bin where the accused was living.
PC Rachel Morning told the court about doing a welfare check on Mr Gibson at the Blue Triangle Housing Association unit in Hamilton.Image caption,PC Morning told jurors that she saw what she believed to be a light t-shirt and grey trousers or shorts and that the shorts appeared to have staining, which she believed to be blood.
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