Vile sex attacker, 23, took teen hostage before raping and beating her in 14-hour attack
A VILE sex attacker has been jailed for 14 years after he took a teenager hostage before beating and raping her in a 14-hour attack.
Declan Delaney, 23, vowed to have the terrified victim murdered and even chillingly pretended he had recruited a hitman to spirit her away and dump her body at an industrial unit.
The girl, 19, known as Miss A had earlier been summoned to Delaney’s home after he flew into a rage at her going to bed early instead of visiting him following a shopping trip with her mother.
During her ordeal he threatened her with knives, spat in her face, pulled her hair, kicked her, dragged her about the flat and banged her head into a chair calling her ”nothing but a dog” before twice being made to have sex.
When she pleaded with him to stop Delaney added: ”I’ve had enough of this, I’ve had enough of you” before calling a man known only as ‘Nal.’
Miss A was then forced to listen as Delaney put the call on loud speaker and said: “Bro, I’ve got a job, I need you to bring a van to the car park – make sure you have gloves and rope.
“Get petrol. We’ll take her to the usual spot in that abandoned unit, tie her up and leave her”.
When the friend seemingly arrived at the scene, Delaney, from Romiley, Stockport, Greater Manchester told the girl: ”You can save me a job of me killing you, why don’t you just kill yourself now. I’ll leave you in this room to die, no one will ever find you”.
Miss A escaped the following day after promising Delaney she would not tell anyone about her ordeal and feigning calls to friends and family saying she was fine when they became worried about her whereabouts.
When she arrived at her mother’s home she was said to be in a ”pitiable state, dishevelled, injured, hysterical, struggling to breath and in great distress.”
In a statement to police she said: ”I genuinely believed he was going to kill me and I felt utterly degraded.
“In the days and weeks following the attack I suffered soreness to my body plus mental and emotional exhaustion and being unable to comprehend what had happened, constantly reliving the experience.
“I felt dirty and was washing myself constantly. I couldn’t leave my house for a number of days and couldn’t return to work and felt unable to do anything.
“I also felt a sense of blame, self-doubt and uselessness. I have felt completely alone and ashamed.
“I was once a happy, stable, bubbly, outgoing person but I am shy, withdrawn and broken. He’s completely changed me as a person.
“The physical injuries have healed, but the emotional and psychological scars run much deeper, and still have not begun to heal, and I feel that they won’t.
“And I will be this person forevermore. I have no escape from what he did to me. Day and night, it haunts me.
“This is a real nightmare for me that has never ended. I worry that I will never be rid of it.”
At Bolton Crown Court, Delaney was convicted of two charges of rape, false imprisonment, occasioning actual bodily harm, battery and threatening to damage property.
He denied wrongdoing but a jury was told he had previous convictions for beating up and controlling a previous girlfriend in 2018.
The victim’s ordeal began after she had been out at the Trafford Centre near Manchester.
She was due to visit Delaney at his brother’s home to drop off some of his belongings but instead texted him saying was going home as she needed to be up for work early the next day.
Mr Alaric Bassano prosecuting said: ”He did not take this news well and his messages became angry, menacing and threatening.
“He demanded that she attend his brother’s property and threatened her that if she didn’t, he would attend in a taxi and smash her windows.
”To add credence to his threats he laced them with such menacing words as ‘I swear on my sister’s grave, I’ll do it’.
“She took him at his word and fearing the consequences of what would occur she told him that despite the late hour, she would drive to Stockport to hand over items she had belonging to him but would drive straight back home afterwards.”
The girl arrived to drop off Delaney’s belongings but he then demanded she drive him back to his flat saying: ”I don’t give a f..k. I swear if you don’t do it, watch what happens”.
En route he said he wished he was driving so he could crash the car into a wall and told her that he wanted to push her foot down onto the accelerator to cause a smash and even began to manhandle the handbrake.
At his flat, he demanded she go inside saying: “Listen, you’re not going anywhere. This is my car now, you’re not getting it back. You’re staying with me”.
He then confiscated the girl’s phone and used it to send a text to her worried mother pretending to be the victim saying: ”I’m fine, I’m staying at Dec’s”.
Mr Bassano added: ”His conduct was fuelled by an uncontrollable temper, anger that she had kept him waiting and paranoia that she was romantically with another man.
His conduct was characterised by controlling behaviour, demeaning and sadistic behaviour and sexual violence. He was an abusive, threatening, controlling bully.
‘DERANGED ANTICS DRIVEN BY ANGER’
”Inside the flat he locked the front door, putting chairs up against the living room door then placed his flat keys, her car keys and her phone beneath the settee cushion on which he then sat, preventing her access to her property or the means of leaving of her own free will.
“The girl’s mother continued to call and text but he would not allow her to answer or reply
”Over a period of what she judges to be about 2 ½ hours he pulled her hair by her plaits and dragged her about the room by her head.
“He also grabbed her head, striking it against a chair, kicked her leg, dug his hand into her arm, repeatedly spat in her face, struck the side of her head causing her ear piercing to tear and her ear to bleed and threatened her with knives.
”He made her log onto her own Facebook and Instagram accounts using his phone and then began to send messages to her male contacts pretending to be her and then claiming he had evidence of her infidelity. These were deranged antics driven by anger, jealousy and paranoia.
”At one point he threatened her in an extreme way, ringing someone, putting the call on loud speaker and chillingly declaring he had a ‘job’ for him to do.
”A man seemingly arrived and when she started screaming, the defendant put his hand over her mouth to quell the sound and then told the other man to leave as her screaming would alert the neighbours.
“This was another gratuitous threat designed by the defendant to terrify and torment his prisoner.”
‘WATCH WHAT HAPPENS’
Delaney subsequently offered to hand back the girl’s phone on condition she had sex with him and when she refused, he raped her. He eventually let her go the following morning after she agreed to drive back to his brother’s flat.
In police interview Delaney accused the girl of making ‘false allegations’ saying they were ‘inspired by her resentment at his ending their relationship.
But police recovered text messages sent by from Delaney in the run up to attack in which he referred to the girl as a “joke”, “sly”, “sl*g”, “vile”, “tramp” and “b*tch”.
One said: “I swear to god if you try and take the p*ss and not f**king come. If you’re saying you’re not coming, watch. On my sister’s grave. Watch what happens.”
Delaney also had previous convictions for drug trafficking and for a violent burglary at a house in which he and two accomplices broke into a man’s house and beat him up to make him repay a debt.
His lawyer Mr Chudi Grant said: ”Maturity is something that builds upon experiences in life and it may well he was perhaps not a fully developed young man.
“Childhood difficulties he has endured have perhaps shaped his attitudes, his views and his emotional well-being and has tainted his world view of life and the nature of relationships.”
Sentencing the judge Mr Recorder Peter Atherton told Delaney: ”These offences reflect the verbal, physical and sexual abuse that you inflicted on Miss A.
“During the evening you persistently sent angry and abusive text messages, then bullied her into driving you home.
“You were angry and abusive and your anger turned to violence. At your flat, you prevented her from leaving or communicating and over the following hours, you pulled and dragged her by the hair hit her about the head, kicked her.
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“You led her to believe that you were actively making arrangements to kill her and burn and dump her body where it would not be found. You humiliated and terrified her. You ignored her obvious fear and distress, and you cruelly denied her basic human needs.
”It is clear from her personal statement that her dreadful experiences at your hands have had devastating ongoing consequences for her and for her family.
“In different ways, each of these offences and your previous convictions demonstrate a propensity for coercive control and violence in your relationships with young women.”