The twisted sexual predator with a terrifying 'determination to obtain gratification'

A twisted sexual predator embarked on a sickening campaign of 'humiliating' rapes and sexual offences against terrified victims. Oliver Wolstenholme, 38, committed horrific sexual attacks on several women over a number of years, Bolton Crown Court heard.

On one occasion, the serial rapist followed a woman home before attacking her in a graveyard and raping her. On another, he secretly recorded himself having sex with a woman before threatening to put it on social media if she refused to sleep with him again.

The 38-year-old was jailed for 22 years in November 2021 for rape; sexual activity with a child; inciting a child to engage in sexual activity; and two counts of possessing offensive weapons relating to four other victims. Currently imprisoned at HMP Wakefield, Wolstenholme, originally from Wythenshawe, was sentenced on Thursday (April 27) for further 'multiple' rape; as well as assault and voyeurism offences.

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Sentencing, judge Thomas Gilbart said Wolstenholme was 'quite determined to obtain sexual gratification irrespective of any of the desires of anybody else'.

The court heard from prosecutor Mr Ben Lawrence how Wolstenholme raped his first victim on multiple occasions, including at knifepoint and in a graveyard.

The 38-year-old assaulted his second victim with a sex toy as she 'screamed', the court heard, as well as raping her on 'seven or eight occasions'.

Wolstenholme later 'pestered' his third victim to agree to let him see her in lingerie, and secretly recorded her in the underwear and having sex with him.

In what Judge Gilbart called 'a moment which crystalises the evidence of [his] manipulation and cruelty', Wolstenholme kept the video