A rapist who filmed his ‘sadistic’ attack on a vulnerable homeless woman wailed in the dock after he was found guilty.
Liam Stimpson, 24, targeted his 40-year-old victim in the early hours of December 27 last year after spending Boxing Day out drinking in Cardiff to celebrate his birthday.
After befriending the woman with the promise of buying her food, he cornerd her under a railway bridge where he forced her to strip before launching the brutal sex attack.
Video of it taken from Stimpson’s phone showed the woman’s face bleeding and badly swollen while she sobs into the camera ‘don’t beat me, please, I’ve got kids’.
Stimpson could be heard replying: ‘I’ll tell you what to do. I’m the boss.’
Jurors heard the victim spent several days in hospital after the attack having suffered a broken nose along with injuries to her head and wrist.
Stimpson was foud guilty of two counts of rape, one of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without their consent and GBH with intent.
Prosecutor Nicola Powell said: ‘He battered her, humiliated and degraded her for his own sexual perversions.’
Judge Jeremy Jenkins told Stimpson his ‘callous’ and ‘sadistic’ attack warranted a lengthy jail term.
‘You recorded this incident for your own sexual gratification, as some kind of trophy to view at your leisure or to show to others. It shows a woman who is naked, battered, bloodied and frightened for her life,’ he told him.
‘You degraded and humiliated her and forced her to crawl like a dog while you filmed it. You completely humiliated her and took away the last ounce of dignity from her.’
The judge handed him a 15-year prison sentence and ordered he be placed on the sex offenders’ register for life.
Stimpson screamed and cried in the dock when the verdicts came back.
He cruelly claimed the encounter was consensual, forcing his victim to give evidence and accusing her of encouraging the ‘roleplay’ and ‘playing up for the camera’.
Stimpson told jurors: ‘She suggested the role play, she suggested I record it.
‘She knew she was being recorded and she was playing up for the camera.’
He told the court: ‘She could have left at any time of her own free will.’
The dad-to-be turned to his parents and girlfriend in the public gallery, crying: ‘I didn’t do it, I love you.’
Detective Inspector Katherine Barry said: ‘Stranger attacks such as these are extremely unusual in Cardiff but in Liam Stimpson we had a dangerous individual.
‘The level of violence he used, and degradation of the victim was horrendous. He is an absolute danger to women.
‘We would like to thank the witnesses who came forward as a result of the press appeal for information and those who bravely gave evidence.
‘We would also like to pay tribute to the victim’s support officer who has been an invaluable support to the victim and the investigation.’ (Metro)