A convicted rapist carried out a sex attack on an eight-year-old girl.

James Morrow, who was already on the sex offenders' register for life, abused the child at a house in Greenock, Inverclyde, in January this year.

She told her mum what happened before police were alerted.

Morrow pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the girl at the High Court in Glasgow on Monday.

Prosecutor Angela Gray said the girl had been "bubbly and talkative" before the attack.

But she now refuses to go back into the room where it occurred and has become "quiet and subdued".

The court heard Morrow, from Gourock, had been jailed for 14 years in the mid-90s in England for raping a stranger.

He was remanded in custody pending sentencing in Livingston on May 9.