A MAN has been caged for two and a half years after he was found guilty of carrying out a series of vile sex attacks on two teenage girls in Garelochhead and Alexandria.

Trevor Snowdon was also placed on the sex offenders' register for life at Dumbarton Sheriff Court.

He carried out the assaults on one of the girls between January 2013 and June 2015 at properties in Garelochhead and Alexandria.

A second girl was attacked at the same Alexandria property between January 2013 and January 2014.

The two girls were both aged 14 when the attacks first took place.

Snowdon, 51, denied two charges of sexual assault against the two girls, in which he was accused of attempting to induce one to have sex with him, removing the nightwear of the other, committing a sex act in their presence and simulating sex with both.

He also denied physically assaulting a woman at a property in Garelochhead, and then at a caravan on the A82 near Luss on two occasions in June 2014 and June 2015.

But after a trial last month at Dumbarton Sheriff Court the jury found Snowdon guilty of all the charges against him. He was sentenced on Tuesday.

An an earlier hearing the woman Snowdon physically attacked said she had confronted him after learning of the sex abuse allegations against the two girls.

She told the court: “He turned into an animal and stood up and punched me to the side of the head. He looked like he had the face of a total animal.

“He punched me from one end of the car park to the other, repeatedly.”

Under cross-examination at Dumbarton Sheriff Court, Snowdon insisted that the three victims, and three other witnesses, were all lying about his behaviour, but said he couldn’t think of any reason why they would do so.

Giving evidence, Snowdon admitted carrying out the Luss caravan assault on June 23, 2015 – but stated that he had only punched his victim once in the face.

The two victims of the man’s sexual assaults both gave their evidence in private.

And the jury found Snowdon, of Market Street, Wakefield, guilty of both the sexual assault charges.

On the Luss caravan incident they found him guilty, under provocation, of punching his victim once on the head to her injury.

When the case returned to court, defence advocate Edith Forrest told how Snowdon continues to deny the allegations of sexual assault on the indictment.

In sentencing Sheriff Maxwell Hendry said to Snowdon: "I have considered alternatives to custody but none of them are appropriate in these circumstances."

As well as a two and a half year jail term Snowdon was also fined £400 for a charge of assault.