A brutal rapist who carried out a series of horrific sexual and physically abusive attacks on several women has been locked up.

Stephen Poulton inflicted unimaginable pain and degradation on his young victims throughout a campaign of degrading abuse, Teesside Crown Court heard.

The 68-year-old continues to deny any wrongdoing despite a jury finding him guilty of 28 sex offences against his victims, including the rape of all three on separate occasions.

The court heard the devastating impact the pervert’s abuse had on all of his victims as they still struggle to come to terms with what they suffered at his hands.

Judge Jo Kidd told Poulton that he had obtained "delight from his sadism" as she sentenced him to 33 years in custody.

She said: "The violence, the humiliation, the recording,

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