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A CHARMING womaniser who seduced a string of women has been exposed as one of Scotland’s most evil men, capable of monstrous violence against his terrorised partners.

Patrick Chinskie, 47, has finally been convicted of raping five women but his victims and police fear there may be scores more.

The women he tortured – who come from all over Scotland – today break their silence to describe how he seduced them with gifts and charm before inflicting a reign of sexual and physical barbarity behind closed doors.

His former wife, Claire Bradley, described how he raped her on their wedding night in May 2009.

After being hit, raped and sexually abused, she fled into the night as soon as her new husband fell asleep.

Former carer Claire, 38, said: “Hopefully, he will never get out of prison. I know it sounds nasty but I hope he dies in jail for what he’s done to me and these other poor women.

“People need to know what this man is like. I pray it will never happen to anyone else.”

Claire, who has bravely waived her right to anonymity to expose the full extent of Chinskie’s depravity, relived her wedding day when he first switched from being her Prince Charming to a terrifying violent thug.

She said: “The minute the ring was on my finger, he changed. My life turned into a nightmare.

“He’d booked a hotel but when we got to the bedroom, he started shouting at me. He hit me, flung me on to the bed and forced himself on me.

“I was screaming and the people in the room next door were banging on the wall because of the noise. I was petrified. I couldn’t believe how he had changed.

“As soon as he fell asleep, I escaped to safety and went to my flat where my mum was staying .”

Despite a cycle of beatings, Claire stayed with Chinskie until finally getting out of his clutches in 2011. They divorced a year later.

She said: “The abuse went on and on nearly every night when he had been drinking or on drugs.

“He hit me over the eye with a bottle and I still have the scar.

“I was scared to death, too frightened to leave because of what he would do when he caught up with me. I used to get a friend to come round and sit with me so he would not assault me.

“He destroyed my self-confidence and tried to belittle me all the time, to make me feel that I needed him.”

Chinskie even forced Claire into helping him deal drugs but she eventually managed to escape.

She gave evidence against her former husband from behind a screen during his trial.

Claire said: “I got away. He was a very controlling person – a total control freak. He took my phones from me so I could not call for help.

“I still get flashbacks. I have difficulty sleeping and I see pictures of him. It’s horrible but I’m trying to get over it.

“He preyed on vulnerable women and he controlled them. I can never forgive or forget what he did to me.”

The High Court in Glasgow last week heard a dreadful litany of violence by Chinskie.

He repeatedly raped one of his victims, burned her face and body with lit cigarettes and hit her with a baseball bat before locking her in a room for two days.

One another occasion, he used a pair of pliers to mutilate one of her nipples and even beat her while she was seven months pregnant.

During the attack, sick Chinskie repeatedly threatened to kill her and her unborn child.

His violence against women lasted for 20 years – until one of his victims was finally brave enough to go to the police.

The offences were committed between 1990 and 2011 at addresses all over Scotland including Glasgow, Paisley, Nairn, Inverness, Bathgate and Wishaw.

Chinskie was convicted of a total of 16 separate assaults. After the guilty verdicts, judge Kenneth MacIver QC told him: “You should consider why you find yourself here on these charges.

“You were charming when you first met these women and made them fall in love with you but then so quickly, you became a vicious and evil abuser.”

Sentence was deferred until next month to determine the risk Chinskie poses to women.

One victim said: “At first, he was very charming and did things for me but then the violence started.”

She said he “wouldn’t take no for an answer” when it came to sex.

Another woman met him when she was a teenager and he was on his honeymoon. He held a machete against her throat in a flat in Paisley and knocked her to the ground and also repeatedly punched her during an attack in Nairn. Another victim was repeatedly raped by Chinskie. He also smashed broken bottles over her, hitting her on the head with the broken glass.

One woman, also repeatedly raped by Chinskie, was so besotted with him that she wrote him love letters while he was on remand.

However, in court, she spoke up against him and told how he held a sword against her throat and struck her with a knife.

Chinskie also bit her on the body and sexually assaulted her with a screwdriver.

Another victim was regularly beaten up and raped by Chinskie and had a knife held to her throat in a house in Glasgow.

On one occasion, he approached the car she was driving and kicked in the windscreen, forced her to go to a flat with him and then repeatedly punched her and pushed her against a wall causing her head to strike a nail.

Another woman was attacked by Chinskie when he took her to the Rock Ness festival where he punched her on the head.

Chinskie will be sentenced next month in Edinburgh.

Another Chinskie victim speaks out: 'He took over my life then almost took my life'

Another of Chinskie’s victims told how police faked her arrest to get her to safety.

The woman’s sister had begged officers in Bathgate to rescue her.

They then pretended to lift the mum for failing to pay a speeding ticket and took her to a safe house.

The woman, who asked not to be named, said: “When they told me my kids and I were safe at last, I cried hysterically then laughed with relief.

“If they hadn’t taken me away that day, I’m convinced Chinskie would’ve killed me.

“I’d refused to allow him to destroy my life and never thought I’d hear his name again until two officers came to my door last December. Then the abuse came flooding back.”

The woman relived how charmer Chinskie wormed his way into her life, despite her being married with two children.

She said: “He was working on the coal lorries at the time and kept chatting me up whenever he came into the street.

“I started an affair and left my husband for him. In the beginning, he was so charming and romantic, bringing me flowers and chocolates.

“My family were just horrified because they loved my husband to bits so when Chinskie started beating and punching me, I felt I had nobody to turn to.

“He took over my whole life. He’d lock me inside the house and I wasn’t allowed out without him.

“He even made me cut off the phone because he couldn’t hear what callers were saying to me.

“I wasn’t allowed to wear nice clothes or make-up and he was paranoid if I spoke to anyone.

“I even had to give up my job because he didn’t want me talking to anyone.

“He demanded sex when he wanted and if I refused, he’d punch my body black and blue so nobody could see what he was doing.”

Last week, Chinskie was found guilty of kidnapping her, raping and beating her, holding a knife to her throat, biting her and threatening her between December 1990 and December 1992.

The woman, who fled to Edinburgh to escape Chinskie, described one chilling attack after she ran from his Glasgow flat and tried to drive off.

She said: “He was like a fiend, clinging to the car as I tried to get away.

“He kicked through the windscreen and dragged me out.

“Someone called police but when they came, he persuaded them someone had tried to steal the car. He was an evil coward but always so plausible.”

The woman bravely refused a screen to give evidence against Chinskie at the High Court.

She said: “I wanted to look him in the eye. I wanted him to know he hadn’t broken me and that I’ve had a blessed, happy life.

“Now I pray the judge sends him away for a long time because if he doesn’t, he will kill someone.

“For years, I slept with a baseball bat next to my bed. I still have CCTV.

“I hope other victims will now find the courage to come forward and set themselves free from this monster.”