Stirling sadist who raped two people told sentence 'of some length is inevitable'

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A self-confessed sadist who “lured” two “vulnerable” young adults to his flat where he forced them to wear collars and tags while he subjected them to months of rape and abuse has been told he faces many years in jail.Scott Lannister, 34, who described himself as one of the Britain’s biggest “puppy masters”, attracted recruits from throughout the UK and sent them tickets to travel to Stirling to live with him as “house pets”.They had to call him “master” and lived as dogs.The High Court in Stirling heard that a young autistic person who completed his “pack registration form” online and moved up from England to be with him was beaten by him with a studded leather flogger called “The Scorpion”, slept in a dog bed in a cupboard, and was forced to wear a neoprene puppy mask and a padlocked collar when out for “walks”.They also wore a clip-on fuzzy tail.They said they “initially felt happy and care-free living as a puppy”, but Lannister began to kick them with steel toe-capped boots, and repeatedly raped them, “as a form of punishment”.A video seized by police and played in court was described as showing “in graphic detail the person’s pain and distress, as chained and with a mask on, they were flogged by Lannister to the breasts and buttocks”.

Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area. Eventually Lannister put a noose round their neck attached to the ceiling and kicked away a stool they were standing on.The victim blacked out, and woke up with one of their eyes swollen shut.Lannister claimed they had been doing “extreme breath play” and when he had been unable to get the rope off, he had to cut it, resulting in them falling forwards and the person smashing their face on the floor.Their injuries were so