A man raped a woman in a sickening attack in which he tied her up after hitting her with an axe, a court heard. Mark Yeates dragged the dazed woman upstairs after hitting her with an axe handle before taping her hands and feet together and raping her as she threw up and begged him to stop.
The 51-year-old warned his victim not to tell the police after the “truly horrific and brutal sexual attack” as he said "I'll get 10 years for this." But, he was handed an even longer sentence than this at a Preston Crown Court hearing yesterday, LancsLive reports.
Yeates arrived outside his victims house on the morning of February 28, according to prosecutor, Mark Goode, but she did not want to speak to him. She knew who he was but he smelt of alcohol and she asked him to go away.
