July 2014 Ex-Caithness man convicted of two rapes A FORMER Caithness man has been found guilty of raping and assaulting two women while living in Wick during the early 1990s. Duncan Begg (43) denied dozens of alleged offences against women and children, including three rapes and carrying out lewd acts on three children during a 26 year period. Begg, from Skye, denied the offences at the High Court in Aberdeen and claimed that all sexual contact he had with the women was consensual. But a jury today (Monday) took just under two hours to find him guilty of eight offences relating to two of the women. One of his victims was subjected to a horrific indecent assault when she was pregnant in 1991. Begg banged her head on bars, put his hand inside her body and threatened to remove her unborn child. He attacked the woman on another occasion, when she was not pregnant, by repeatedly punching her on the face and burning her breast with a cigarette. He poured a bottle of whisky over her face and raped her. Begg attacked another woman in 1990 by seizing her by the hair and dragging her into a kitchen. Her clothes were removed and she was forced outside naked where he raped her. Judge Morris deferred sentence for background reports until August 1 at the High Court in Glasgow.