Torture rape beast drops freedom bid
Victim’s relief after attacker ditches appeal
A MONSTER who raped a mum and tortured her with a screwdriver for two days has dropped a bid for freedom.
The Record told last week how Eric Schrickel’s victim Pauline Marshall was living in terror that her attacker could be back on the streets within months.
The rapist, who was jailed for seven years in May, intended to appeal against his conviction and sentence.
But it has now emerged the 42- year - ol d has accepted his fate.
Pauline, who bravely gave up her legal right to anonymity to warn other women about Schrickel, said: “It’s a relief that his appeal won’t go ahead.
“But seven years is still nowhere near enough for what he did to me.”
Schrickel posed as a good Samaritan to lure Pauline, 42, into his flat in Greenock in July last year. She’d been having trouble with her neighbours and needed somewhere to stay.
The rapist, who was a friend of Pauline’s relative, offered to take her in.
She slept in the living room but Schrickel made sexual advances towards her and flew into a terrifying, violent rage when she turned him down.
When Pauline refused to kiss Schrickel, he grabbed a chopping board and battered her with it.
He pressed the board so hard against her neck that she passed out. Schrickel then launched a prolonged sexual and physical assault on Pauline, throttling her as she slipped in and out of consciousness.
She said she came round to find Schrickel poking a screwdriver into the corner of her eye.
The rapist told her: “You’re going to die in here.”
Pauline added: “I was sure he was going to kill me.”
She finally made her escape when her attacker fell asleep.
He denied all wrongdoing and showed no remorse. But a jury at the High Court in Livingston found him guilty of raping and assaulting Pauline on July 20 and 21 last year.
A Scottish Courts Service spokesman said Schrickel had lodged intimation of intent to appeal after his conv i ction but no appeal was lodged before the deadline.