Man is found guilty of rape
Two women subjected to ordeals
regularly I was beginning to think it was a normal way of life.”
The court heard that during a six year period up to May in 2012 Witek had subjected the woman to violence and pulled her hair, shoved her, repeatedly punched her to the head and body and took off her clothing, held her down and raped her at different houses in Livingston.
The second woman, also 35, was attacked in March last year at her home. After he left the victim sent a text to a friend and said she had been raped.
Witek had previously carried out a sex assault on the woman in May 2015.
Witek, a gardener, claimed that both women were lying during the evidence. He told the court through a Polish interpreter of the first woman’s claims of physical assault: “There is no truth in it. I have never allowed myself to assault her or do any of these type of things.”
He claimed the woman had lied in her testimony because she hated him.
The former doorman said that he had an on/off relationship with the second woman and added: “There had been some situations where we were saying ‘bye, bye’ to each other and we had farewell sex.”
He claimed that on the occasion of the rape in the kitchen he had brought the relationship to an end, but the woman maintained she finished it because she was frightened for her daughter and herself.
Witek was placed on the sex offenders’ register.