Jason Lawrance, described by police as a "predator" contacted thousands of women online before carrying out a series of sex attack
A Match.com serial sex attacker has been found guilty of raping five women after meeting them on the online dating site.
Jason Lawrance, 50, was described by police as a "sexual predator " after committing a string of attacks in the months after marrying another woman he met on the site.
Chillingly, Lawrance contacted thousands of women on the site before arranging to meet his victims.
Derby Crown Court heard Lawrance texted one of his victims after attacking her apologising for "hurting her" and saying: "When you were crying out for me to stop I couldn't, I'm so mad at myself xxx."
The 50-year-old was also found guilty of attempting to rape and sexually assault two other women after chatting to them online.
He was arrested after a friend of a woman who was raped in Derbyshire in November 2014 went to police.
The jury heard that Lawrance raped another woman in the back of a van which he had parked in a field in Northamptonshire in June 2011.
In November 2013, another woman was raped in her home the morning after having consensual sex with Lawrance.
In October and November 2014, Lawrance raped two women in hotel rooms in Cambridgeshire and Leicestershire respectively.
In the former attack, the woman had her hands tied behind her back while the attack was carried out.
Lawrance also attempted to rape another woman and carried out a sex assault on a further woman by grabbing her breasts as they sat in her car.
Derby Crown Court heard four of the victims complained about Lawrance to dating website and one of the women was told administrators could not do anything because he had not sent abusive messages through the site.
One of his victims said she feared she would never see her children again when she was attacked.
The jury was shown a police interview given by the woman after she was driven to a "pitch black" field in Northamptonshire and raped.
She said: "I thought I was not going to see my kids again. He made me feel humiliated, disgusting.
"I remember thinking I was never going to get out of here. He was a well built, muscly man and I did not want to antagonise him.
"I was just crying and saying 'let me go, you don't want to do this, let me go home now', but he did not listen."
Prosecuting, Shaun Smith QC told the jury that Lawrance - who used the site with the profile names KeepItStraightToday and StraightMan-Looking - was a Jekyll and Hyde character who targeted "vulnerable, naive, lonely women".
Detective Chief Inspector Allison Rigby, from Derbyshire Police, said the two-week trial had been "devastating" for the victims.
She said: "I certainly think he is a sexual predator who has preyed on women through match.com that he has met who have got (some) vulnerability.
"He seems to have targeted females who are divorced and widowed.
"Only Jason Lawrance will know how many people he has sexually assaulted - it is possible that there are other people out there."
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