Mums joined strength for the prison rapist after suffering ‘years of hell’

The predator Liam Sharpe was sentenced by nine positions that involved serious domestic abuse and multiple violations of the three women in several directions in Coatbridge, Motherwell and Barrahead.

Three mothers have said how forces joined to see a Series rapist imprisoned after suffering “years of hell” in the hands of the violent predator.

The women, who did not know each other, were two of the three survivors who bravely gave evidence in the court to see violent domestic abuser Liam Sharpe imprisoned them.

Robyn Jenkins, told a jury how he underwent a torrent of violence By Sharpe, who raped her, drowned her with a television cable, tried to suffocate her and led to her foot with her car.

Sharpe, 37, repeatedly raped Anglea Mcarthur while she slept and attack repeatedly to another former partner whom he assaulted and repeatedly broken leaving her fearing for her life.

The abuser, from Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, was already serving a four -year prison sentence for Convictions of domestic abuse against two women, when he was taken back to court To face charges of rape.

Robyn, 35, said: “He broke me. I was a strong person but I was scared to leave home,

“He is a manipulator, violent violent But I want women to know they can leave. They can obtain justice.

“I don’t want any other woman to experience what we have.”

Sharpe was convicted of nine positions involving serious domestic abuse and multiple violations Of the three women in several directions in Coatbridge, Motherwell and Barrhead.

A six -day test in the Superior Court in Glasgow where he was convicted of carrying out a campaign of brutal cruelty, violence and rape between December 2013 and January 2023.

Last week, Sharpe received the order to meet 13 years and 10 months in prison.

Robyn, a nurse, met with Sharpe in 2021 and was assaulted and broken for more than two years.

She said: “He gave me a purple eye, contained me and would be covered with bruises.

“He contacted the hospital where he worked and told them that he had drugs and that I had to submit to drug tests. It was horrible, everything was lies.

“When I mentioned that I wanted a new sofa, he sold my sofa on Facebook without me knowing it and when I said I wasn’t ready to sell, but he took the television cable and began to strangle me.

“I was paralyzed with fear. The children were up and I knew that I made any noise that could wake up and lower. I was terrified that I hurt them.

“My car was stolen and when he walked away he ran on my foot.

“He tried to suffocate once with a pillow because he said he was doing too much noise by washing. I couldn’t breathe, I thought I was going to die.

“Once I returned to work home and said I was too tired for him to come. He approached and made his way in the house and raped me.

Robyn communicated with the police and discovered that he had been granted bail three times in October 2019, as well as in February 2020 in four different Sheriff courts for the previous one. national cases

She said: “An officer went out to talk and read a list of his previous convictions. He was subject to bail orders at that time for cases of domestic abuse against other women. ”

The bully also attacked Angela, 37, and raped her repeatedly while she was asleep between May and September 2019.

Angela said: “He is a controlling and dangerous narcissist who fortunately now is where he belongs.

“He laughed and applauded when he saw me in court, he has no remorse for what he has done. I was terrified of introducing myself to the police, but I had to do it because I had to be stopped. I have no doubt that I would have made other women hurt.

“Like me, women who are victims of rape and abuse need to speak, find that strength because they are there.”

Sharpe was also convicted by brutally rape and assault his ex -partner repeatedly for a period of five years between December 2013 and March 2018.

The 31 -year -old mother, who has asked not to be identified, said: “I suffered years of hell in her hands. He broke me as a person and I was terrified of him.

“I reported in 2018 to monitor the domestic abuse he had suffered. I told them at that moment that I had made me have sex and I was so controlled that I didn’t even realize that I had been raped.

“He was convicted of domestic abuse against me and another woman in 2022, but it was not up to a month after his conviction that the police return to me with respect to the violation.

“The time he first broken I was sleeping with my daughter. He grabbed my hair, dragged me around the house, stripped me, spat me and raped me.

“It was very violent and once when I arrived at home I found him in a mattress on the floor next to a used condom. I questioned him and he threw me down the stairs.

“When I got pregnant, I was hospitalized twice. He hit me in my stomach, kicked me when I was on the floor.

“The neighbors once called ambulance and could hear me scream with so much pain. But I had always fallen, or I had stumbled. I was so afraid of him that I couldn’t leave.

“I had broken ribs, a broken nose. He threw me from the car on the highway and made me walk home.

“My little Yorkshire Terrier was shown and his front leg was broken, but when I went to the veterinarians, it was that the dog had been hit by a car. The dog ended up having the leg amputated “

Sharpe will also be monitored for five years at the launch.

Sencing him, Judge Gillian Wade Kc ordered Sharpe told Sharpe: “Each of his victims described the same control pattern, abuse and manipulation against his usual abuse of substances.”

He was placed on the list of sexual criminals and was forbidden to approach or contact women for an indefinite period. “

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