Trail of terror

money have you got?’ I had about €1,000 from customers for that day and I told him to take it. I said to him, ‘Is that all you want?’ and he said, ‘Yes.’

“He said, ‘Take your top off.’ Then he took his top off and that was when I saw his distinctive tattoos.

“He had raped one of my guests a few days before me and she described his tattoos to me. He has one that says ‘F*** the police.’

“As soon as I saw those tattoos I knew what was going to happen to me.”

She went on: “It was horrendous. He told me, ‘I am a man and I’ll take what I want.’

“He raped me five times in all and even made me lay next to him with his arm around me and the knife to my throat while he had a sleep. I was too terrified to move. He made me look at pictures of other girls he had raped on his phone. My eye had bruised and closed up straight away after he punched me and it was bleeding.

“He kept asking me, ‘What are you going to tell people about your black eye?’ I had to keep convincing him that I wasn’t going to tell anyone.

“At one point I remember thinking ‘Please just finish me off. Let me die.’”

Escape

Remarkably, Kayleigh managed to escape. She said: “At 4am he gave me €10 and told me to get a taxi to the hospital to get myself cleaned up.

“I ran to a bar and told them ‘I’ve been raped.’ I didn’t leave the house for months afterwards and I couldn’t walk down the street. I was terrified and lost all my confidence. I’ve suffered a lot with PTSD.”

Aspiotis was caught 18 days after attacking Kayleigh following a hunt in the woods where he was living.

He rang a TV station to surrender on condition he was filmed being arrested as he was afraid of the possibility of police brutality.

He tried to defend his actions in court by saying he had to rape as he was too ugly for women.

It is understood his early release is the result of a law passed by Greece’s previous government which allows sentences to be reduced in return for good behaviour and working in prison.

A new government elected two months ago has condemned the law but it has also been accused of releasing murderers and rapists to ease prison overcrowding.

Kayleigh said: “They’ve released him on the quiet because they’re afraid of the truth of what they have done getting out and it affecting the tourism in Kavos.

“But I’m not willing to let them do it quietly.”

Lawyer Florent Kavadas, who briefly represented Aspiotis before his 2012 trial, told us: “He’s been released due to a horrible law.”

Last night the Greek authorities failed to respond to our enquiries. 1997-2005 Aspiotis rapes three British

women in Kavos on the island of Corfu.

2007 He gets six years jail for these

crimes.

June 2010 The beast is fr eed halfway

thr ough his sentence.

July 2010 He begins a 46-day rampage

targeting four more British women including

Kayleigh. 2012 Aspiotis is jailed for 52 years.

2019 He is released but his victims

aren’t told.