A rapist and serial domestic abuser is still running a bed and breakfast more than three years after claiming he had “stepped away from the business” when he was exposed, a court heard today.

Edward Anderson was today told he faces jail after he was found guilty of assaulting his former partner at the guest house they run in Dundee’s Perth Road.

He dodged jail on that charge – despite having served an eight year sentence imposed in 1985 for raping a woman in Glasgow.

Following the 2013 conviction Anderson claimed he had “stepped away from the business” and was looking to sell up.

Anderson was understood to be living at the guest house at the time of the attack but was banned from the property following the incident on September 22 – and moved just a few doors away on the city’s Perth Road.

The trial heard the woman had gone into Dundee city centre on the day of the attack, leaving Anderson at the B&B.

She later returned but an argument ensued in the kitchen at the property.

During that Anderson lashed out – punching her in the face and injuring her.

Anderson later claimed the woman had fallen and hurt her head either on a boiler or a bin in the kitchen.

A sheriff branded his account “not credible” – and found him guilty of the charge.