BY CHRISTINE GRAY

A SEX predator laughed after he drugged and raped a 14-year-old schoolgirl.

Darren Tonner pounced on the teenager at a flat in Port Glasgow in November 2018.

Jurors heard the twisted 26-year-old gave the youngster street valium and legal highs before the attack.

He has been convicted following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

Tonner was also found guilty of having underage sex with another girl when she was 14 and 15.

He denied the charges, insisting police were trying to 'stitch him up'.

The young rape victim had met Tonner through a relative.

She was later invited to his flat, but the child insisted she was not staying the night.

The girl recalled: "As I told him that, he gave me whatever he gave me - he drugged me as I was going home."

She told jurors she took cigarettes, alcohol, 12 valium tablets and a legal high during the time she spent at Tonner's flat.

The girl said she was shocked when Tonner told her what he had done and said that she had no memory of it.

She said: "I wasn't expecting that to happen, it may have been when I was sleeping when he did it and it woke me up.

"It was quite sore...and he laughed at me."

The trial heard Tonner told the victim to remove the SIM card from her phone to stop her apparently being tracked.

Tonner had underage sex with another girl in Greenock and Gourock between October 2017 and January 2018.

He had first groped her while watching a horror film.

Judge Graeme Buchanan has deferred sentencing on Tonner for background reports and remanded him in custody.