A RAPIST - jailed for six years in the early 1980s for his part in the abduction and gang rape of a teenager - is facing prison after being convicted of a second sex attack.

Paul Logan pleaded guilty at Newcastle Crown Court earlier this week to the rape of a 19-year-old woman after being tracked down by the cold case team at Northumbria Police.

The victim was grabbed as she walked through the Gallowgate area of Newcastle in 1980, physically carried away and thrown over a fence, where she was raped by Logan, then indecently assaulted by a second man.

A year later, Logan - who was then married and living in Ernest Street, Pelton - was jailed for the brutal rape of a 16-year-old girl.

The girl was abducted from outside a Gateshead cemetery and driven away in a Ford Escort to a secluded spot where she was gang raped by three men, including Logan.

At the time, Mr Justice Jupp told Pelton, a father of one who already had a conviction for indecent assault when he was aged 16, that he had an appalling record and added: "You refuse to pay any attention to the law or cease to commit offences.

"Now you have come to the point where you have committed offences which are really serious and deserve severe punishment."

Logan was arrested earlier this year by officers from Northumbria Police's Operation Phoenix team - the squad which uses advances in DNA evidence to track down sex offenders who have escaped justice for several years.

Now 45 years old and living in Rye Hill, Newcastle, Logan appeared before judge David Hodson on Monday.

He denied two further counts of indecent assault and the judge ordered both to lie on file.

The judge remanded Logan in custody until he is sentenced on November 22 and warned him he could expect to receive a substantial term in prison.