Life in jail for acid rapist

A STEROID addict who raped a TV presenter and then got acid thrown in her face in act of “pure calculated and deliberate evil” was jailed for life today.

Daniel Lynch’s 25-year-old victim — an aspiring model and presenter — suffered horrific injuries in the attack.

She is now partially blind in one eye, has to be fed through a tube in her stomach and has endured more than 30 operations.

Lynch, 33, was sentenced to life at London’s Wood Green Crown Court today.

Stefan Sylvestre, 20, who threw the acid, was also given a life sentence.

Passing sentence, Judge Nicholas Browne QC said: “(The victim) had a face of pure beauty. You, Danny Lynch and Stefan Sylvestre, represent the face of pure evil.

“The facts of this case are chilling and shocking. You planned and then executed an act of pure, calculated and deliberate evil.

“You decided to wreck the victim’s life by thrusting a full container of sulphuric acid straight into her face from point- blank range.”

The court heard how martial arts expert Lynch had beaten up and raped the woman, who can not be named for legal reasons, in a hotel room last year.

It happened just weeks after the pair met on Facebook.

Several days after the attack he got Sylvestre to throw acid in her face as she walked down a North London high street.

A victim impact statement was read to the court in which the woman said the attacks had destroyed her life.

So far she has had more than 30 operations for her injuries and faces a further two years of surgery.

The statement read: “There are not enough words descriptive enough in the English language to describe how I felt after both of the evil attacks upon me.

“I am aware that there is a crime greater than that which has been afflicted upon me and that is murder. From my perspective as the victim of these monstrous attacks my personal suffering is in fact worse.

“I have lost my future, my career, my spirit, my body, my looks, my dignity, the list goes on. All I am left with is an empty shell.

“A part of me has died and that will never return. This is worse than death.

“Being beaten, raped and mutilated with acid has left me feeling like a living corpse.

“Being raped had a devastating affect on me, it left me numb and empty, it made me loathe myself with feelings of disgust and humiliation.”

She added: “The ongoing mental and physical torture I have been put through has crushed me and left me a broken woman.

“Before the attacks I was affectionate, outgoing, happy and confident.

“I am now an empty shell of myself and the very thought of intimacy now makes me feel physically sick and unable to cope with displays of affection from my own family.

“It’s an awful feeling to be unable to hug your own parents without breaking down in fits of extreme emotion and uncontrolled flashbacks of the horrific violation I suffered.”

A jury at the court found Lynch guilty of rape in March. Lynch, of Shepherds Bush, West London, admitted actual bodily harm and was found guilty of grievous bodily harm at previous hearings.

Sylvestre, of Shepherds Bush, pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm for the attack at an earlier hearing.

via The Sun.

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