AN asylum-seeker who dragged a woman into bushes in Glasgow Green with intent to rape her has been jailed for four years.

Molon Baraka, 26, was caught because his terrified victim had the presence of mind to grab his library card with his name on it from his pocket.

Baraka pounced on the 51-year-old woman as she walked through Glasgow Green in January this year - just three months after entering the UK as an asylum-seeker from Sudan.

Sentencing Baraka at the High Court in Glasgow, judge Lord Matthews told him: "This is the stuff of nightmares. It may have been her screams caused this episode to stop. We can only speculate what long-term psychological damage will have been caused."

Lord Matthews also ordered Baraka to be monitored in the community for two years after his release.