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A VILE rapist is using human rights laws to avoid being deported from Scotland.

Abdalla Ali Hemed was convicted of raping two women in 2008 and assaulting two others with intent to rape.

One of his victims was aged 17 and was forced to run naked through the streets of Aberdeen to escape Hemed’s clutches.

The judge who jailed him for nine years called Hemed “a danger to women” and ordered that he should be deported to Somalia following his release.

But after completing his sentence, Hemed launched a legal challenge to his deportation, arguing his human rights would be breached if he was returned to his home country.

Hemed, 52, received almost £70,000 from the Scottish Legal Aid Board to fight his case.

Last week, judges at the Court of Session ruled in his favour, allowing him to stay in Scotland.

One of his victims, Angela Coutts, has waived her right to anonymity and has spoken out, calling for Hemed to be expelled from the country.

She was raped during a party at his flat in Aberdeen in 2004. She passed out and then fled naked after waking to find herself being attacked. She got pregnant and was forced to have an abortion.

Angela is devastated Hemed is to be allowed to stay in Scotland.

She said: “He should be sent back to his own country or locked up here for the rest of his life.

“The system has not only let me down it has also let down the other girls he hurt. It is just wrong.”

At the Court of Session, Lord Carloway said deporting Hemed would be a potential breach of his human rights as he could end

up in ”makeshift accommodation”.

In a written judgment, the law lord said Hemed would have “no access to funds and no clan, family or social support” if returned to Somalia.

He added that as Hemed was from the minority Bajuni ethnic group, there was a risk he would have to live in “makeshift accommodation in conditions falling below acceptable humanitarian standards”.

Angela says her life has been ruined by Hemed.

She added: “I’ve been so worried I might walk into him. I am constantly terrified.

“How is this fair? It feels like the whole system is against me.”

On arrival in the UK from Somalia in 2002, Hemed declared himself a member of the Bajuni clan and was granted refugee status by the Home Office. After his attack on Angela, he went on to rape another woman at knifepoint in his flat in Aberdeen in August 2006.

In December 2006, he tried to rape two more women in separate attacks, threatening both at knifepoint.

The Home Office are considering appealing the Court of Session decision.

A spokesman said: “We are disappointed with the court’s ruling and are considering whether to appeal further.

“Any foreign national offender who poses a threat to the UK should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them.”