Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
MONSTER JAILED FOR ‘CAMPAIGN OF RAPE’
Violent pervert used photos to blackmail his young victims
A MAN who carried out a “campaign of rape” on two underage girls has been jailed for 20 years.
Keiran Mckeown, 37, originally from West Belfast, was branded a “monster” after trying to blackmail his victims with photographs.
The Teesside Crown Court judge said: “All you gave them was fear and hate and abuse – and all for your sexual pleasure.”
A SICK child rapist was described as a “monster” yesterday as he was caged for 20 years.
Keiran Mckeown, 37, originally from Belfast, used violence or grooming to molest and assault two vulnerable girls repeatedly.
And he took photos of them to blackmail them into silence in his “campaign of rape”, Teesside Crown Court was told.
Mckeown, from Twinbrook in West Belfast, even bragged to one victim that everyone would think he was a “legend” back home.
Recorder Gurdial Singh told him: “The reality is everyone back home will see you for what you are – a convicted child rapist.
“All you gave them was fear and hate and abuse, and all for your sexual pleasure. You knew it was wrong.
“You knew you behaved like a monster. You’ve shown no remorse at any time.”
Prosecutor Richard Bennett said Mckeown degraded his victims, calling them vile names when they refused his advances.
The judge told how the pervert plied one underage girl with alcohol, getting her drunk for the first time to sexually assault her.
He went on to rape her repeatedly.
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He used violence to coerce her, grabbing, punching, kicking and strangling her, once flying into an “uncontrollable rage” and beating her as she curled into a ball.
The judge said: “She was too frightened to tell anyone.”
He said Mckeown laughed in her face in his “sheer arrogance”, exerting control and telling her she would not be believed.
In a moving statement, the victim added: “He could have put an end to this by admitting what he had done. I would have been saved from this turmoil.”
Mckeown groomed and repeatedly groped a second underage girl, passing it off as a joke and moving on to rape her while she froze.
The judge said he did not use overt violence this time as his methods became more sophisticated, again taking pictures “no doubt hoping to blackmail her”.
Mckeown, of Yarm Road, Stockton, lied to police and claimed he had consensual sex with the girls.
He was convicted on eight counts of rape and six sexual assault charges, which he had denied, this week.
The beast had pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a child and possessing indecent images of children.
He was cleared of one sexual assault against a third complainant.
All you gave them was fear and hate and abuse. You knew it was wrong RECORDER GURDIAL SINGH TEESSIDE YESTERDAY