A WOMAN woke to find a man trying to pull a Kinder Surprise full of heroin out of her vagina.

Heroin addict Vincent Rutter, 56, had been "desperate" to get his next fix when he tried to retrieve the drugs from Jodine Harvey after spending 24 hours taking an "extraordinary amount" of drugs together.

2 Jodine Harvey, 38, woke to find the man trying to retrieve the drugs from her vagina Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

But when Harvey woke screaming in the "pitch black", she and boyfriend Steve Brown, 40, attacked Mr Rutter - subjecting him to a campaign of violence that lasted 36 hours and that left with him 17 fractured ribs, a punctured lung and a lacerated spleen.

Brown pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent and Harvey to causing grievous bodily harm, jailed for three years and 16 months respectively.

Judge Simon Carr, sitting at Truro Crown Court, said the case provided an insight into the murky world of criminality linked to Class A drug addiction.

He said: "You'd all gone to sleep having taken drugs for over 24 hours. You two were asleep on the chairs when Mr Rutter came in and tried to remove a Kinder egg of drugs you, Miss Harvey, had in your vagina.

2 Steven Brown, 40, beat up Vincent Rutter in revenge for trying to get the drugs Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

"It was not a sexual act, just one of someone desperate to get their next fix.

"Miss Harvey you woke up to find a man with his fingers in your vagina and in the pitch black didn't know it was Mr Rutter.

"Mr Brown you woke up and attacked the man and Mr Rutter was then the victim of a sustained beating for which there can be no excusing."

The trio had been at Mr Rutter's flat in St Austell, Cornwall, in December last year when the attack unfolded.

Mr Rutter, who had been attacked for hours in the hall and bathroom, eventually managed to escape while his attackers slept.

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Mitigating on behalf of Brown, Ed Bailey said that his criminal past was typical of someone who has to offend to fund their drug habit.

He added that Brown reacted "in a way he considers completely inappropriate now he is sober."

Harvey was released immediately due to the time she had already served on remand.