After raping a woman, David Flatters Doncaster Rapist who then unjustly imprisoned her and subjected her to a campaign of severe rape and torture has been detained for more than nine years.
Before raping his victim, David Flatters, 22, waited for her to nod off and then made a series of terrifying threats in a last-ditch attempt to hide his violent actions.
After David Flatters’ merciless attacks left her with a litany of terrible injuries, he told her he would “send people round to her family’s house” and that he would be “watching her take her last breath”.
She received bruises, bleeding to the head, a black eye and wounds to her face; David Flatters once drew his victim to the woods, beat her with sticks, and then stepped on the back of her neck while she was face down on the ground and unable to breathe.
Officers arrested David Flatters, then brought him into custody before charging him many charges.
He admitted four counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH), rape, controlling and coercive behaviour, false imprisonment, strangling, common assault, intimidation and escape from legal custody.
Following a hearing at Sheffield Crown Court last Wednesday, 1 May, David Flatters was sentenced to nine years and five months in prison.
After that, he has to spend two more years on licence, and David Flatters is also subject to an indefinite sexual harm prevention order (SHPO).
According to the SHPO rules, David Flatters of Cranbrook Road, Wheatley, has to notify the Violent and Sex Offender Register (ViSOR) anytime he starts a new relationship with another individual.
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