Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Ulsterman jailed 9yrs for two-day rape ordeal
Rogers, 28, battered girlfriend in jealous rage
A NORTHERN Ireland man has been jailed for nine years after raping his girlfriend in a jealousy-fuelled attack at their Spanish home.
Dylan Rory Rogers, 28, from Co Down, forced his victim to have sex over two days after accusing her of looking at another man on the beach and telling her he was going to punish her.
Prosecutors detailed the horrific sadistic treatment the former Ulster schools rugby player subjected her to in an indictment released ahead of his trial on Wednesday at a court in the Majorcan capital Palma.
They accused him of pepper-spraying her on one occasion and throwing eggs at her on another as well as making her dance naked for him and calling her “his slave” on the day of the first rape. On another occasion he was said to have changed her SIM card in her phone, leading to her losing all her contacts “so he could exert greater control over her”.
It was part of the “situation of dominance he imposed on her through the abusive exercise of his authority and physical superiority”.
DAMAGE
He blamed her for the damage he said she had caused him for ‘looking at the other man’ PROSECUTORS’ INDICTMENT RELEASED AHEAD OF TRIAL
After forcing her to perform a sex act on him and raping her on August 7 last year, he stopped her from leaving the apartment the following morning and made her have sex again before physically attacking her.
Prosecutors said: “He blamed her for the damage he said she had caused him for ‘looking at the other man’ and said she would have to compensate him with the pain he was going to cause her.”
The indicment added he raped his girlfriend while he hit her and smashed her head against the wall and grabbed hold of her neck.
It added: “He told her he didn’t care whether he had to kill her and covered her mouth with tape.”
Rogers, who has been held in prison since his arrest last August, admitted to a crime of sexual assault and another of wounding.
Prosecutors had been seeking a total sentence of 34 years – 15 each for two separate counts of sexual assault – before his courtroom confession which formed part of a plea bargain deal.
He was also ordered to do 80 days community service and was given a restraining order lasting 21 years preventing him from going near his victim or trying to contact her.
The 23-year-old, from Europe, was in court to watch Rogers being sentenced.
He was held by police after his victim managed to escape their eighth-floor apartment in S’arenal and alert a neighbour.
She is thought to have been naked and covered only with a towel when she fled as Rogers showered.
The sentencing court, Palma’s Audiencia Provincial, was told the defendant had a previous conviction for wounding.