Depraved rapist attacked his victim with 9ft boa constrictor and raped another woman 1,000 times in vile campaign of abuse
Twisted John Dickson, 38, used his pet snake called Mitch to abuse one of his four victims
A SERIAL rapist who attacked a woman with a 9ft-long snake during a 17-year reign of terror has been jailed.
John Dickson, 38, used his pet boa constrictor called Mitch to assault one of his four victims during a sick catalogue of abuse.
Glasgow High Court heard how ex-labourer Dickson, from North Lanarkshire, Scotland, terrorised the woman by throwing the huge snake at her.
The traumatised victim said: "He chucked it on me a couple of times. I was terrified."
She said the sex attacks happened so often they ended up feeling "normal".
A court heard she was raped in a train toilet travelling to Edinburgh and would often be attacked in her sleep.
The twisted sex beast raped another woman up to 1,000 times over five years.
Dickson also subjected two more victims to horrific abuse.
One cowered in a storage cupboard holding a knife because she was terrified of getting another beating.
The predator was found guilty of five charges against four women, including rape and domestic abuse in crimes that took place in Motherwell, mainly between 2000 and 2017.
Sentencing him to 14 years in jail, judge Graeme Buchanan said the women had suffered "degrading and humiliating ordeals."
He added: "This was a course of criminal conduct of a quite extreme nature and you have shown no remorse whatsoever."
Dickson will be monitored for four years after his release.
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