Vile rapist, 51, sexually assaulted woman after hitting her with an axe and tying her up as victim tells court ‘he were loving it, literally loving it’

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.

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She got ready for work and left her house an hour later, but Yeates was waiting and jumped over the neighbour's fence and ambushed her. Yeates pleaded with her to let him in the house and she eventually said he could for five minutes.

Once in the stood face-to-face and the woman noticed that Yeates had both hands behind his back. Soon she felt a sudden pain after he had hit her with the handle of an axe he was hiding behind his back, knocking her to the ground and causing her to bleed.

He dragged her towards the stairs and tried to make her walk up them but she was too dazed from the blow. He pulled her up the stairs, forcing her onto the bed where she vomited in fear.

She felt like she was "used like a rag doll,” Mr Goode said. He continued: “She knew what he was going to do and was repeatedly saying ‘no’ to him”. Yeates warned her to be quiet and the woman