By Elizabeth Byrne.
A man who repeatedly raped a woman and forced her to carve his nickname into her arm with a knife while keeping her confined has been jailed in the ACT for nearly 14 years.
The 26-year-old Pakistani national was “depraved and seeking to meet warped desires”, a Canberra judge said during sentencing.
The man pleaded guilty to six charges, including rape, unlawful confinement and assault, over the ordeal the woman suffered in 2014.
The court heard on one occasion he forced the woman to carve his nickname into her arm with a knife.
He also threatened to kill her by cutting off her head, as well as saying he would cut off her legs and throw her body in the water in Darwin.
Justice John Burns said the facts of the case demonstrated “the depths of [the man’s] depravity”.
He said the behaviour went well beyond sexual gratification and was aimed at demonstrating power over the victim.
The court was told the pair met at a cleaning job and the woman had moved in with her attacker for a brief time, before deciding to leave.
The man later found the woman and held her, mostly keeping her confined in his apartment, until she escaped from his car outside his workplace by asking a passerby for help.
The man claimed in court that he had no memory of the events and was consuming large amounts of alcohol and cannabis on a daily basis.