Abuser who tortured women in the camera under the remote lodge given the world -travel prohibition | News UK

A man who used an underground chamber in his remote Lodge Highland to film himself who abused vulnerable women has been subject to the first global prohibition of travel in Scottish legal history.

Kevin Booth attracted the victims of the United Kingdom and abroad to Lohdhu Lodge in Altnabreac, Caithness, “with the purpose of isolating them” and subjected them to prolonged “punishment poles” and forced them to sexual acts.

Inside the shelter, a springboard gives way to a 60 -meter long concrete tunnel that leads to an underground ‘camera’ containing old Egyptian figures of natural size and a metal bank, it was told Wick Sheriff Court.

Women would be restricted to the Metal Bank and beat with implements that include canes, wooden brushes, riding crops and belts that cause them an anguish and extreme pain. “

In his ruling, Sheriff Neil Wilson said: ‘These assaults are video for the defender. A constant characteristic of these assaults is that the defender is pleased to assault his victims.

He added that Booth ‘is very careful when inspecting and filming the inflicted injuries, and that when counting the established number of blows that will be administered threatened to start again if the victim fights or resists in some way’.

Several beatings filmed to the Court were presented.

When describing one, the Sheriff said: ‘This video shows the red and black metal gadget in the Lockdhu tomb area. A young black woman is handcuffed in a kneeling position.

‘The defender tells her that she is being punished for the way she spoke to her. He tells him that he has to learn his lesson. She seems to be terrified. She is screaming and crying. She tries to escape, but she is handcuffed to the bank.

‘Defender Swaps implements and continues to hit it. She is hysterical. She shouts that it is painful. The defender continues to hit it.

“The defender tells him to” pray for the force to take it correctly. “This continues for the duration of the video: 18 minutes.

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‘This seems to be nothing more than torture. She is chained to the gadget while the defender hits her. Apparently it is terrified and tries to escape, but it can’t.

The court heard that Booth ‘has an offense history’, and between 1998 and December 2022 ‘has been involved in a constant course of conduct to recruit women, both from the United Kingdom and abroad, with the purpose of isolating them, either in Lohdhu Lodge or other places away from their homes, and then subjected them to violent blows and force them, through threats of violence, to perform sexual acts about him ‘.

Booth would travel abroad ‘to attack financially vulnerable women and induce them, through the promise of employment and financial gain, to travel to join him in a variety of distant locations of their countries of origin’ where ‘it is better to exploit them and subject to sexual beatings and aggressions. ‘

In a rare movement, the Police of Scotland launched a civil action in search of a prohibition of traveling because they could not monitor the traffic and exploitation of Booth women when I was abroad.

The Sheriff Wilson approved the travel prohibition order, the first in Scotting’s legal history, which means that Booth must deliver its passport and also notify the police 14 days before hiring any employee.

You must also notify the Police before any woman who visits her property and the officers will now have the power to carry out the unnoticed well -being controls.

The Sheriff Wilson said: ‘Evidence of atrocious Booth behavior, as presented in court, was sometimes completely heartbreaking.

‘The graphic video images, combined with the context and the background provided by the documentary evidence of support in various forms, was reddish of a level of cruelty and depravation that, although extreme, one can only expect it to be weird.

‘You might think that the use of such language loaded in a legal judgment is inappropriate. I beg you to differ and not apologize for including it.

“This sentence can be mainly worried about legal problems before the Court, but it is important not to lose sight of the human suffering that gives rise to this case.”

Sergeant Detective Chris Hughes said: ‘The safety of women and girls is an absolute priority for us and we seek the order of risk of traffic and exploitation as an open option to avoid not offering us.

“Traffic and exploitation are a blight in our communities and does not take place in society and we will use all open resources to address it.”

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