Life terms for father who raped his daughters 1000 times

AN independent review was under way today into the case of an evil British father who raped his two daughters over 30 years, forcing them to have nine children.

The 56-year-old, dubbed the British Fritzl, got them pregnant 19 times and threatened to kill them if they told anyone about their horrific ordeal.

Yesterday he was jailed for 25 life terms.

The case was chillingly similar to Austrian beast Josef Fritzl, who raped and imprisoned his daughter.

Today Gordon Brown said that lessons must be learned from the case.

Mr Brown told MPs at Prime Minister’s Questions: "The whole country will be outraged by those unspeakable events that have been reported as happening in Sheffield.

“People will want to know how such abuse could go on for so long without the authorities and the wider public services discovering it and taking action.

“If there is a change to be made in the system and the system has failed we will change the system.”

The father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, must serve 19½ years before being considered for release, Sheffield Crown Court heard.

He had admitted 25 rapes and four indecent assault charges — but cops believe one girl was raped more than a THOUSAND times.

The attacks began in 1980 — when the daughters were aged between eight and ten — and continued on a daily basis. The last attack was in February this year.

He would drag the girls from their beds and rape them as their mum slept nearby.

If they fought, they were beaten, kicked and even held to the flames of a gas fire.

His daughters had five miscarriages and five abortions. Two babies died the day they were born.

But none of the doctors, nurses or social workers they saw while living in South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire investigated why they kept getting pregnant.

Doctors accepted the pair’s denials that their kids were fathered by their dad — who called himself “gaffer”.

The sisters choked back tears in court yesterday as Judge Alan Goldsack QC said: “In 40 years of dealing with criminal cases the circumstances here are the worst I have come across.

“Members of the public will consider you should never be released. I agree.”

A statement from the sisters said: “His detention brings us only the knowledge that he cannot touch us again.

“The suffering he caused will continue for many years.”

Source: The Sun