Liam Cowley, who also used the fake name of Tommy Lee King (Image: Merseyside police)

A dangerous rapist crept into a pregnant woman's house in the middle of the night and carried out a horrific hours-long attack as she screamed and begged for her life. Liam Cowley, 32, took two knives from the kitchen and said "you know what's going to happen next" before repeatedly raping the victim.

Cowley, of no fixed abode, had preyed on the vulnerable woman in Liverpool after taking one of her front door keys. He blackmailed her, threatening to tell social services she had given him the key and "get her children taken off her".

He proceeded to let himself into her house several times during the night, sometimes raping her while she slept. Opening a trial at Liverpool Crown Court, prosecutor

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