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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Lynda Roughley

Rapist MMA fighter 'treated victims as playthings'

An MMA fighter and business student who raped a student and sexually assaulted another while under investigation for an earlier brutal rape attack was today jailed for 17 years.

Charles Goodwin was ruled to be dangerous and a judge imposed a three-year extended licence on top of the jail term. Judge Garrett Byrne told the 21-year-old business management student - who described himself to one victim as “a sex god” - that it was clear he had no care whether his victims were consenting.

The judge said: "Their consent was a matter of complete indifference to you. You treated each victim not as a human being deserving of respect, but as a plaything or toy and you took the view that once they were within your control, you could do with them as you pleased, irrespective of their wishes and without any regard to the impact that your conduct would have upon them.

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