A criminal who carried out a knifepoint sex attack on a woman who went to his house to fit him with an electronic tag has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.

Patrick Nolan, 39, preyed on the woman at his home in the Western Isles on 25 May this year.

The G4S employee had gone to Nolan's address after the monitoring tag he had been wearing as part of a restriction of liberty order (RLO) malfunctioned.

As the woman was about to leave, Nolan - who had been drinking - retrieved a long-bladed knife from the kitchen and demanded: "Take your clothes off."

When she resisted, he grabbed at her clothing and during the struggle left her with a "minor laceration" to her hand.

After physically resisting him, the woman talked Nolan down by speaking "calmly" to him.

A court heard how she told hi

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