A RAPIST who subjected a woman to two lengthy violent sex ordeals has been jailed and banned indefinitely from part of York.
The victim screamed and shook as Mervyn Marshall carried out a series of sex acts on her and assaulted her physically for two hours at a time on two separate occasions as he re-enacted porn videos he had seen.
After the second rape, he told his victim: “You are lucky that I didn’t glass you or knock your teeth out.”
The woman was too scared to run away because Marshall had been violent towards her on earlier occasions.
During one of the rapes, Marshall grabbed her under the chin so fiercely he left red marks.
Judge Guy Kearl QC told Marshall at York Crown Court: “From you, the woman has sustained emotional and psychological trauma. You have inflected long-term emotional damage upon her.”
The judge made a restraining order banning Marshall from going anywhere near the woman in future and barring him from an area bounded by Malton Road, Foss Islands Road, Fulford Road and the A64 outer ring road.
“She must be allowed to live secure in the knowledge that on release he is not going to be in that area,” he said.
Marshall, 53, currently of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to two rapes. He was jailed for four years and eight months and placed on the sex offenders’ register for life.
The woman’s mother described the sentence as a “travesty”.
Stephen Welch, prosecuting, said Marshall had been drinking and watching porn videos in the hours leading up to the rapes.
For Marshall, Taryn Turner said he had spared the woman the ordeal of giving evidence by pleading guilty at his first appearance before the crown court.
He had a drink problem that made him a different person than when he was sober. He had little recollection of what he had done and was contrite.
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