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A woman who was choked until she passed out by the man who raped her has warned he will kill when he is released.

Katie Mackinnon, 33, was beaten and raped throughout her 10-month relationship with Perth sex beast Stefan Scott, 26.

She has bravely spoken out after Scott was jailed for 12 years earlier this month for the violent abuse of six women, and for raping three of them repeatedly – including Katie who has bravely waived her right to anonymity.

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Record, Katie said: “I can’t really describe how it feels when you are with someone like him. Not only was he raping me, he was choking me until I thought I was going to die.

“More than once, I thought this is it, I’m taking my last breaths. I’ll never see my kids again.

“I’ve had to think long and hard about putting myself out there but after talking it over with my partner, Andrew, we felt that I should to warn others.

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“When he gets out, the first thing on his mind will be to get another woman under his power and, if he succeeds, one day he will kill someone.

“Women need to look at his face and remember it, and remember his name, because he will be out, and he’ll only be in his 30s, and there’s only one thing he wants women for. He’s not interested in affection. He just wants rough, violent sex and he gets his biggest high from choking you.”

Scott was convicted at the High Court in Glasgow of 23 charges of rape, assault and abusive behaviour committed between December 2010 and June last year in Perth, Pitlochry and Dundee.

Sentencing him in Edinburgh, trial judge Lord Burns said the rape attacks where women were throttled to the danger of their lives were especially serious.

Jailing him for 12 years, Lord Burns ordered that Scott should be kept under supervision for a further four-year period on release.

Katie had tried hard to get away from Scott, who she started seeing when he was 17 and she was 25.

She said: “He was convicted of raping me on specific occasions when he almost killed me by throttling me but once he became abusive, early in our relationship, every sexual contact was rape.

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“If you are terrified of someone and they beat you, threaten you, tell you they’ll make sure you never see your kids, you’re not consenting to have sex with them, you’re just not fighting back through fear.

“That’s something the justice system doesn’t recognise. He raped me dozens of times and forced me to do things for him I didn’t want to do and I’m sure other victims in the case had the same experience.

“He has been warped since he was a child, he hates women and will kill one day if he gets the chance. He should have been locked up for life.”

He threatened and terrorised her, even breaking into her home when she was out on one occasion, getting into bed and lying in wait for her. Eventually, he left Katie alone when he struck up a new relationship.

Katie had two children from an earlier relationship when she met Scott. She and Andrew have three sons who they dote on but she hopes her other children will look for her when they grow up.

She added: “I have a much better life than I could have imagined, with a good man and great kids, but I am scarred for life mentally by Stefan Scott. Being raped and battered pretty much every day, being choked until you think you are going to die, you feel as though you hardly exist.

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“But the worst thing of all, the thing that can’t be healed, is losing your kids.

“He is a monster and he will always be a danger to women. I just want everyone to be aware and make sure he can’t ruin anyone else’s life.” As well as choking Katie until she blacked out, Scott brandished a broken bottle at her and forced her head under water while raping her.

Another victim was punched on the face by Scott and had her breathing restricted when he squeezed her throat and pinned her to a bed. He threatened to set fire to another woman’s home, slapped her, grabbed her by the neck and tried to compress it and repeatedly punched her.

Scott threatened to kill another victim and to wait for her on the route she followed taking her child to and from school. He also raped the woman and restricted her breathing after grabbing her by the neck.

Another rape victim was grabbed by the throat and pinned to the ground at an address in Perth and attacked at a retail park in the city.

Victims said Scott would not take no for answer when he wanted sex.