Sunday People

I’m terrified beast will rape again KAYLEIGH’S IN SHOCK AS THE FIEND IS FREE

I tried to fight but then he punched me again in the face

- By Patrick Hill

THE victim of a holiday rapist who preyed on British women is horrified after the serial sex fiend was freed 45 YEARS early.

Kayleigh Morgan was subjected to a 14-hour ordeal by Dimitris Aspiotis.

The Beast of Kavos – named after the party resort on the Greek island of Corfu, where he pounced – was caught and sentenced to 52 years.

But Kayleigh, a British Airways stewardess, is appalled to learn he’s been released only SEVEN years later.

Today Aspiotis, 47, is back in the resort where it is feared he has preyed on up to 100 women.

Wa i v i n g her anonymity to speak out, Kayleigh, 32, told the Sunday People: “I want to know why he’s out. I don’t believe he’s changed. A person like that can never change and now I’m terrified he’ll do what he did to me again to more victims. When I heard he was out I was in complete shock.

“I burst into tears and felt sick to my stomach and disgusted.”

Aspiotis was locked up in 2012 and told he would not be eligible for parole until he was 92.

But this summer he was released without a word of warning for his traumatise­d victims.

Kayleigh, who gave evidence at his trial, said: “When he was jailed the judge came down to us and apologised on behalf of the people of Greece and told me to go and enjoy the rest of my life

“I thought he would rot in prison but he’s back sitting in cocktail bars in Kavos.

“The Greek authoritie­s didn’t even have the decency to let me know.” Kayleigh, from Scunthorpe, Lincs, was working as a hols rep when she was raped in 2010.

She was one of four Brit women aged 18 to 47 attacked by the fiend during a 46-day reign of terror.

Shockingly,

t hose attacks came just six weeks after Aspiotis was freed early from a six-year prison term for rapes on three other British women between 1997 and 2005.

He has been convicted of attacks on seven women at his two trials but local police fear the true total is higher.

Punched

Kayleigh was left scarred and partially sighted after her she was seized while on an afternoon beachfront stroll.

She said: “He was asking me for the time and as I went to look to check for him he punched me really hard in the face.

“I tried to fight back but then he punched me again and then got out a huge butcher’s knife and dragged me into the woods by my hair. He asked me, ‘What

 ??  ?? CHEERY: Serial rapist Aspiotis back on patch SCARRED FOR LIFE Kayleigh does not want other girls to suffer like she did
CHEERY: Serial rapist Aspiotis back on patch SCARRED FOR LIFE Kayleigh does not want other girls to suffer like she did

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