Dangerous Inverness sex predator faces life sentence

A DANGEROUS Inverness predator who carried out a campaign of rape and violence against women has been warned he could face a life sentence.

Patrick Chinskie (47) raped five different women during a litany of horrific abuse conducted throughout Scotland over a 23-year period.

A judge told Chinskie, whose middle name is Savage, at the High Court in Edinburgh: "These crimes form a virtual unbroken chain of offending from 1990 to 2013."

Chinskie was charming when he first met victims but then quickly became "a vicious and evil abuser".

Judge Kenneth Maciver QC said he had been provided with victim impact statements from three of Chinskie’s victims.

The judge said: "I have to say it is clear from these that your controlling, abusive, violent physical and sexual conduct to them has had a damaging and enduring effect on them."

"The crimes against them were happening against a background of abuse of alcohol and drugs and a pattern of general criminality disclosed in a schedule of 30 other convictions," he said.

The judge said a previous report prepared on Chinskie ahead of sentencing had used phrases such as "a dangerous predator who has ruined his victims lives".

He said he had come to the view that a full risk assessment should be carried out on Chinskie which can lead to the making of an Order for Lifelong Restriction.

Under such a sentence the court sets a minimum period the offender must serve in prison but any future release, if at all, is left to the parole authorities.

The judge said: "I am led to the view I would be failing in my duty if I were not to pursue the matter of risk assessment further in order to ensure the court protects the public and potential future victims of crime."

Chinskie’s defence counsel Gordon Jackson QC had urged the judge to deal with Chinskie by a determinate sentence with a further period of supervision to give him "a date on the door".

The defence counsel said: "It will obviously require some very severe sentence, no one is disputing that."

Advocate depute Bill McVicar said the Crown submitted that a risk assessment order should be made in the case.

Chinskie, who appeared in court today walking with the aid of a crutch, was earlier convicted of a total of 12 charges including rape, abduction and assault to severe injury and permanent disfigurement.

The offences were committed between 1990 until 2011 at addresses in Inverness, Nairn, Glasgow and Paisley.

Chinskie’s first victim was raped on various occasions between December 1990 and December 1993 at addresses in the Govanhill area of Glasgow and Bathgate, in West Lothian.

Between 1993 and 1995 he subjected another woman to attacks and sexual assaults during which she was punched, kicked and bitten, He also grabbed her nipple with a pair of pliers and twisted.

The woman was also repeatedly burnt with a lit cigarette and attacked with a baseball bat when she was pregnant and threatened that he would kill her and her unborn child.

Another woman was raped by him in 1996 and 1997 at houses in Paisley, Glasgow and Darvel, in Ayrshire. During one assault he ripped a nightdress off her.

A further victim was assaulted by Chinskie at houses in Paisley, Glasgow, Wishawand Nairn between 1997 and 2000 during which he punched and kicked her, butted her, grabbed her by the throat and burnt her with cigarettes.

During one assault he held a machete against her throat.

In June 2008 Chinskie assaulted another woman by punching her on the head at the Rockness music festival site at Dores, near Inverness.

Between 2008 and 2011 he raped and attacked a woman at houses in the Highland city. The woman was also indecently assaulted with bottles and aerosol canisters.

Last year Chinskie raped another woman at a house in Aviemore and assaulted her by throwing a mirror, punching her, seizing her by the hair and pulling her to the floor and penetrating her with a screwdriver or similar object.

The judge continued the case until October for the preparation of a risk assessment report and remanded Chinskie in custody.

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