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A SCOTS bodybuilder was jailed for six years today after throttling a teenage girl during a rape attack on the victim.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Grannell, 27, met his young victim after he was assigned as her personal trainer when she joined the gym he worked at.<\/p>\n

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Nicholas Grannell, 27, has been jailed for six years after he raped and choked a 16-year-old girl<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A judge told Grannell that there was no alternative to a custodial sentence given the seriousness of the offence and the harm caused.<\/p>\n

Lord Renucci pointed out that Grannell became violent with the 16-year-old girl and put his hands around her throat during the assault in Dundee<\/a> on September 1, 2023.<\/p>\n

The judge said: \u201cShe was crying and telling you to stop, that she did not want it, but you ignored her and carried on.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said at the High Court<\/a> in Edinburgh<\/a> that Grannell was aged 25 at the time of the offence and was significantly older than the victim.<\/p>\n

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The judge said it was clear that the impact of the offending was significant and enduring.<\/p>\n

Grannell, formerly of South Victoria Dock Road, in Dundee, had denied assaulting and raping the teenager during an earlier trial, but was convicted of the crime.<\/p>\n

During the sex attack he scratched the girl with his finger nails, pushed her head down, seized her by the neck and compressed her neck, restricting her breathing.<\/p>\n

Defence counsel Gary Allan KC said Grannell had no previous convictions that were of any relevance.<\/p>\n

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He said Grannell had studied psychology at university<\/a> and added: \u201cHis ambitions to pursue that career, after he is free to do so, are in tatters following this conviction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Allan said that numerous character references had been provided to the court on behalf of Grannell.<\/p>\n

Lord Renucci told Grannell that he would be placed on the sex offenders\u2019 register indefinitely and made a non harassment order banning him from approaching, contacting or communicating with the victim.<\/p>\n

In a statement via law firm Digby Brown, the brave young survivor said: \u201cNicholas Grannell will only spend six years in jail but he has put me in a life-long emotional prison I can never escape from.<\/p>\n

\u201cI struggle to understand why this happened to me and how the confident girl I was is now isolated from the life I enjoyed.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrannell is a violent, manipulative and dangerous predator who abused his position to target me when I was just 16-years-old.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever be the same again, but I am dealing with what he did to me the best I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

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