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A RAPIST ‘laughed wickedly’ before throwing scalding tea at a woman, leaving her with burns that required hospital treatment.
Kyle Hazeley only stopped with his ‘appalling and cruel’ serious sexual assault as the woman’s tears were ‘putting him off’.
The 34-year-old dad was later convicted of charges of rape, causing grievous bodily harm with intent, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Having initially denied the charges and other offences, he pleaded guilty to the aforementioned counts on the day of his trial.
These were accepted by the crown, with remaining charges to lie on his file, and his sentencing at Liverpool Crown Court was adjourned to Monday for reports to be prepared.
The offences were all committed in Warrington last year, the court heard from David Birrell, prosecuting.
Hazeley was in the kitchen of an address in the town with the victim. The pair were arguing and the defendant was told to leave, but he refused.
Instead, he asked her for sex a number of times, but she refused and made it clear that she was not interested.
However, Hazeley refused to take no for an answer, grabbing her by the hair, removing her jeans and underwear, and pushing her head down on the cooker, preventing her from moving away.
“She told him to stop and that she did not want to have sex, but this was to no avail,” Mr Birrell said.
It was said that she was crying during the incident and repeatedly told Hazeley to stop, but he ‘laughed wickedly and carried on’.
The court heard that he became rougher each time she told him to stop, that the victim felt that the incident ‘carried on for ages’, and that the defendant only stopped when he said that he ‘couldn’t carry on as her crying was putting him off’.
The assault occasioning actual bodily harm involved him pushing her into the kitchen units and kicking her, causing scratches and bruising.
Kyle Hazeley was jailed at Liverpool Crown Court
In terms of grievous bodily harm, this was caused by Hazeley after he threatened to ‘teach her a lesson’.
He ‘smashed’ her head on kitchen units a number of times, stood over her after she fell to the floor, and said: “Stay on the floor like the dog you are.”
The defendant then boiled the kettle, made himself a cup of tea with sugar in it, did another ‘wicked laugh’ and threw the scalding tea over her.
This caused scalding and burning through her jacket, which she instantly tried to remove, but he stopped her from doing so and ‘pushed the jacket down to make it stick to her skin’.
“He said that she deserved it and that it was not his fault, but hers,” Mr Birrell said, adding that Hazeley stopped her from seeking immediate medical attention.
When she did later attend A&E at Warrington Hospital, a doctor observed her 2” by 3” burn and referred her to the plastic surgery burn clinic at Whiston Hospital.
Here, her wound was cleaned and treated, and she was prescribed antibiotics.
In an impact statement, the victim said that she could not move her arm to brush her hair or have a shower after the tea incident, and that she did not want to go out in case anyone saw her injuries from the assault – or the defendant again.
She said that she was left fearful and anxious, has trouble sleeping still and has flashbacks, and is still uncomfortable when she hears the kettle.
“I feel like my life will not be the same again,” she said.
When Hazeley was arrested by Cheshire Police, he was interviewed twice and answered ‘no comment’ to questions put to him.
Mr Birrell revealed to the court that the defendant has nine previous convictions for 13 offences, with his most recent being for battery in 2009.
The court heard that the offences caused ‘severe psychological harm’ and permanent injury or scarring through the use of a weapon in the boiling tea.