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He claimed he only breached sex offender rules because he was 'running scared'
A convicted rapist claimed he only breached the rules of the Sex Offenders Register because he was "running scared".
Alan Badley once raped a woman in her own home and threatened to show a video of the attack to people on his estate.
The then 20-year-old thug headbutted and repeatedly punched the victim during a vicious three-hour ordeal in April 2008.
She only escaped when she persuaded him she was going to buy cigarettes and fled covered in blood to a neighbour's home.
Badley, from Woodchurch in Birkenhead, was found guilty of rape after a trial and jailed for seven years in December 2008.
The young dad - with three children to three different women - was also told to sign on the Sex Offenders Register for life.
Liverpool Crown Court today heard he has kept breaching its rules, including failing to notify police when he moves address.
Simon Duncan, prosecuting, said the now 33-year-old told police he was living in Rice Lane, Wallasey, on September 7, 2020.
But when an offender manager visited him on April 19, they "found the flat had been trashed and there was nobody present".
Badley wasn't questioned about this until his arrest on June 3, when he claimed he left the flat in March and started buying cheap cars to live in.
Mr Duncan said: "He told the police he had formed a relationship with another occupant at the flat who was married. He was threatened by her partner and left for a few days."
Judge Gary Woodhall said: "That is consistent with what officers found at the scene, with some graffiti and the like."
The court heard Badley was also arrested by police in Caernarfon, North Wales on March 19, after a call from a member of the public.
Officers found him sitting in the driver's seat of a car, with the engine running, and a woman sitting in the passenger seat.
They could smell alcohol and cannabis and he admitted having "a few drinks of vodka" and handed over a cannabis grinder.
Badley failed a roadside breath test and later gave a reading of 40mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mg.
He was previously banned from the road for dangerous driving in 2003 and never took an extended retest to regain his licence.
Yet Badley told police he drove to North Wales to "chill out" and after parking up, was asked to move his car.
Judge Woodhall said Badley had crashed into a wall and the car was "still wedged against it when the police arrived".
While on bail over that incident, and still wanted over breaching his notification requirements, Badley drove again on June 3.
Police saw him at the wheel of a Ford Fiesta on false plates on the M53 and stopped the car in Birkenhead at around 8.40am.
Badley later admitted failing to comply with his notification requirements, two counts of driving while disqualified, two counts of driving without insurance, fraudulently altering a vehicle registration mark, being in charge of a vehicle while above the alcohol limit, and breach of bail.
The court heard his criminal record includes four previous breaches of notification requirements.
One is from July 2017, when he was jailed for three years for offences which also included assault causing actual bodily harm and harassment with violence, after repeatedly beating a former partner in the North East.
Durham Crown Court heard during a four-month relationship he threatened to slit her throat and persuaded her to have her pet dog put down.
Badley was last convicted of breaching his notification requirements following a period of homelessness last summer.
On December 14 he was handed 26 weeks in jail, suspended for 18 months.
The court today heard Badley's current girlfriend was sitting in the public gallery and had written a letter to the judge.
Bernice Campbell, defending, said all of the offences were linked to her client's "chaotic life".
She said: "He was released from prison, no fixed address, he initially met his current partner, though they did have a break in the middle, and she put him on the right tracks.
"He got accommodation and unfortunately that didn't work out, and neither did the relationship at that time.
"He's a man who has had a history of things that have upset his adult life, such as abuse when he was much younger, and he's at the moment currently waiting to be reviewed in regard to PTSD."
Ms Campbell said Badley had abused alcohol, cannabis and heroin, but was now on methadone in prison and trying "to get on the straight and narrow", while also receiving medication for depression, anxiety and borderline personality disorder.
She said the latest breach of his notification requirements wasn't deliberate and a result of him "running scared because of threats to his life".
Ms Campbell added that Badley's partner was willing to support him and give him a home when he is next released from jail.
The lawyer said: "She will stand by him. She sees through perhaps what many don't."
Judge Woodhall adjourned the hearing just before a lunchtime break at 1pm, stating he would pass sentence after 2pm.
Badley, appearing on a video link from HMP Altcourse, said: "Do I have to come back for that your honour?"
"You do," the judge replied, to which Badley moaned: "What a joke."
Judge Woodhall jailed him for 20 months in total, including four months of his suspended prison sentence.
He also banned him from the road for two years and 10 months.