Rapist ex-soldier who breached sexual prevention order by dating vulnerable women is jailed

Shaun Jewiss, 48, duped one woman with learning difficulties into a three-year sexual relationship after contacting her on the Badoo dating website.

Jewiss also hooked up with a disabled woman after meeting her on the same site despite being banned from having relationships with women without prior permission.

Jewiss - who was a signaller in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers - was placed on the prevention order (SOPO) after he was jailed for more than two years for rape and sexual assault in 2014.

Jewiss, from Loanhead, Midlothian, pleaded guilty to three breaches of the SOPO when he appeared by video link at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last month.

He appeared in the dock in person for sentencing today where Sheriff Donald Corke said: “You breached your SOPO by not informing the police of these relationships and deleting items from your telephone.

“You may not like it but you do have to abide by these conditions.”

Jewiss was jailed for ten months on each of the three charges and the sentences will run concurrently.

In May this year police officers, as part of the SOPO imposed in 2016, arrived at a hotel he was living in and found “sexual messages and intimate photos” of him and one of the women on a mobile phone.

He admitted to meeting her on the dating site in March 2017 before having a secret three year relationship.

Prosecutor Rosie Cook said a second victim was also identified who confirmed she had met Jewiss and there had been “a degree of sexual contact” between them.

Ms Cook added both victims, who cannot be identified due to legal reasons, were described as “vulnerable” and the second victim was registered disabled.

Jewiss was also found to have further breached the order by deleting messages from the women from his phone.

Previously, defence lawyer Ross Gardner said his client served in the British Army for 22 years on tours in Iraq, Kuwait and Northern Ireland.

Mr Gardner added Jewiss had been diagnosed with PTSD and had been in custody of these matters since June 1.

Jewiss pleaded guilty to entering into a relationship with a woman without informing the police at the Royal Hotel, Penicuik, Midlothian, between March 1, 2017 and March 10 this year.

He also admitted a similar charge with a second woman between February 1 and May 28 this year.

And he pleaded guilty to a third charge of deleting texts and other communications from a mobile phone between January 1 last year and May 28 this year.

Jewiss was previously jailed for more than two years after a jury convicted him of two rapes and a sexual assault following a trial at the High Court in Livingston in 2014.

The jury heard the former soldier trawled dating sites in search of kinky sex and repeatedly attacked a woman he was in a relationship with between 2010 and 2014.

Jewiss filmed himself sexually assaulting a second woman he had met online while her children were in the next room.

He was jailed for 10 months in July last year after admitting to breaching the SOPO by using his son’s phone to contact a woman.