A man who raped, assaulted and coercively controlled a woman in the course of a six week relationship has been jailed for 17 years.
On various occasions Dean Ward, 36, sprayed Mace into the woman’s face, tied her up, choked her and then raped her, threatened her with a hammer and punched her in the face.
He controlled her access to friends and family, took over her online banking and monitoring her whereabouts and her mobile phone and removed her contraceptive device as she slept.
