Two Queensland police officers have recounted their horror at discovering a woman's bound and gagged body inside a shipping container in a Gold Coast backyard.

Sergeant Peter Venz and Sergeant Danny Rahe filmed the rescue purely as evidence, fearing the woman they discovered might not survive.

That woman was Nikitah Beadman, who had been suffering abuse at the hands of her boyfriend Robert Galleghan for over a year.

The abuse escalated three months after their relationship started in July 2011 and lasted until November 2012, when police arrived at Galleghan's Gold Coast property and found Ms Beadman had been bound, gagged and tortured, then left to die in a shipping container at the rear of the property.

Sergeants Venz and Rehe filmed the rescue as evidence, concerned Ms Beadman would not survive (Source: A Current Affair)

"When the doors opened we've seen the trolley, like a fridge loading trolley, and we could see a body strapped to it" Sergeant Rahe told A Current Affair .

"That's when we went inside and probably saw the most horrific thing we've seen."

"My heart actually sank."

"It was evil and depraved what I saw."

Sergeant Venz can also still remember what he first saw when the shipping container's doors were opened.

"She had a blue yoga mat strapped around her head with wire and she was wired all the way down the shopping trolley. The wire was so tight it was just cutting into her skin," he said.

"We were getting no movement out of her, we were getting no response out of her. Her dress was up, her private parts were exposed," Sergeant Rahe added.

Sergeant Peter Venz and Sergeant Danny Rehe (Source: A Current Affair)

The compassion of the two police officers is clear in the video they filmed, in which they pulled down Ms Beadman's dress so that she could have some semblance of modesty.

"The first thing I did was kneel down, because there was nothing I could do, but was to told her hand and tell her I was there and that we were trying to help, and reassure her and calm her. That was all I could do," Sergeant Rahe said.

Eventually, Sergeant Venz found tools to remove the wires in Galleghan's kitchen.

"I was on one side and Danny was on the other, and the first thing we did was remove the blue yoga mat," Sergeant Venz said.

"It was bound around her face so tight that there was no way she could breathe. We removed that just to find more, more horror. He had her mouth stuffed with her underwear, and that was wired and the wire was cutting into her cheeks so tight, and the wire was also chained around through the trolley."

"What sort of person leaves someone that they're supposed to love strapped to a trolley, in a shipping container, down the back of the house in the bush, and go off to the police station to make a complaint knowing damn well that she's probably going to die in that shipping container?"

Ms Beadman thanks the police officers for their determination in freeing her from being held captive (Source: A Current Affair)

Ms Beadman remembers the kindness the two police officers showed her that night.

"I remember them apologising to me. They didn't think I was going to make it and there was wire inside of me," Ms Beadman said. "It was more of a torture way so I couldn't have kids."

Despite the attack occurring in November 2012, Ms Beadman is still recovering and living in pain.

"I have got a lot of injuries still now," she said.

"I have got a twisted backbone and two rotated ribs, that in any sort of movement or any sort of exercise could pierce one of my lungs; I have got multiple sprains all through my back; I have got sciatic nerve damage; I have also got nerve damage in my right arm, that I still couldn't use for a year-and-a-half after - which was from the wire."

Robert Galleghan was sentenced to eight years in prison (Source: A Current Affair)

Galleghan was charged with torture, common assault and threatening violence.