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Pint-sized exotic dancer José Israel Gutiérrez Ríos, 48, specialised in hen parties and won over an army of female devotees with his routine.

Rios – known in porn circles as Irita – has been jailed for nine years after being convicted of sexually assaulting two lone women and leaving them in their own homes.

Once attack happened in July or August of 2010 and the other in May 2012.

The court in Madrid, Spain, heard there could be many more victims but it simply not be proved.

Rios was so confident of his abilities that he would even approach women in the street and in some cases they had no memory of anything until they woke up the next day in their homes unaware of what had happened in the meantime.

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A judge ruled there was clearly the administration of a drug – the identity of which was unknown but which was probably a date rape drug – which had taken away the ability of the women to rebuff his advances.

The court heard that Rios had been arrested at least once over 40 cases of sexual assault against different women.

But because there was little trace of the drug remaining in the women's bloodstream, as it disappears hours after being administered, he was released without charge.

Colombia-born Rios, who has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia syndrome, it had apparently not affected his self-confidence or his ego.

He told neighbours he was at various times a security guard in a chalet, a cleaner in a library and an actor.

But they knew from his miniature bull-fighting costume that hung on his washing line that he was in a different line of work.

Rios was performer with all-male strip troupe called The Pekeboys.

The court heard on the side he would pretend to be a shaman and would lure vulnerable women to his home with some psychobabble.

He offered everything from cures for illnesses to confidence-building sessions but then applied the same knock-out medication for his perverted thrills.

Rios was ordered to pay his two victims 50,000 euros (£35,662) in compensation for the assaults.