{"id":29988,"date":"2025-11-10T12:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/29988\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:23:10","slug":"man-who-raped-doctor-in-city-centre-doorway-jailed-for-nine-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/29988\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who raped doctor in city centre doorway jailed for nine years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mihae-Nicolae Patran, 34, assaulted the then 27-year-old stranger as she took a short cut through Mitchell Street in Glasgow early on the morning of November 26 2023.<\/p>\n

After the rape the victim, who did not know Patran, managed to flee naked from the waist down.<\/p>\n

Patran was convicted of the rape last month following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.<\/p>\n

He was also found guilty of exposing himself to a woman and performing a sex act upon himself on a train between Perth and Stirling on October 22 2023, and of sexually assaulting a female in a court room that autumn.<\/p>\n

Judge N McFadyen said that Patran poses a \u201creal danger to women\u201d when he sentenced him at Glasgow High Court on Monday.<\/p>\n

He handed him a 12-year extended sentence comprising nine years behind bars followed by three years of supervision upon release.<\/p>\n

\"ArrestPatran was arrested following an incident on a train in October 2023 (Crown Office\/PA)<\/p>\n

Judge McFadyen said of the rape victim: \u201cShe took a shortcut through the alleyway where you were intending to bed down in a doorway and she had the misfortune to encounter you there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know from the CCTV and mobile phone which captured a little of what happened and the length of the episode that she was subjected in that doorway to a protracted, demeaning and squalid rape over 40 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The judge noted that Patran had been found guilty of three sexual offences involving female strangers over a five-week period in 2023 and said it is hard to imagine what led him to engage in such \u201cdepraved and degenerate\u201d conduct.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cYou are clearly a dangerous man and, in particular, a real danger to women.\u201d<\/p>\n

The judge said it is hoped that Patran, a Romanian, will be deported to his home country.<\/p>\n

\"HighPatran was sentenced at Glasgow High Court (Jane Barlow\/PA)<\/p>\n

Patran\u2019s name has been added to the sex offenders register indefinitely.<\/p>\n

Donald Findlay KC, representing Patran, said he cannot offer the court any contrition or apology on behalf of his client as the 34-year-old continues to maintain his innocence.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWhat Mr Patran\u2019s long-term plans are I do not know. It seems he would prefer to return to his home country at some point in time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere seems to be very little for him in this country apart from loose connections with people along whom he worked in the building trade. As far as I know he has no close family ties in Scotland.\u201d<\/p>\n

Faye Cook, Procurator Fiscal for High Court Sexual Offences, said: \u201cMihai-Nicolae Patran poses a significant danger to women and is a sexual opportunist who offends in high-risk situations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe prosecution identified and drew together multiple strands of evidence, including CCTV footage, which supported the harrowing accounts given by all three victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis conviction would not have been possible without these women, and I hope it brings some comfort that Patran has now been held accountable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis type of stranger offending, while rare, will not be tolerated and Scotland\u2019s prosecutors will continue to fully support those affected as we seek to secure justice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mihae-Nicolae Patran, 34, assaulted the then 27-year-old stranger as she took a short cut through Mitchell Street in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-29988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}