A man accused of torturing, burning and raping a woman during a 23-day ordeal is facing a possible life sentence. Nicholas John Crilley subjected his victim to severe physical, psychological and sadistic violence, that was so bad paramedics initially thought she was dead, the Brisbane District Court in Australia heard today.
The woman was raped daily, set on fire and had boiling water poured on to her genitals, the court heard. Crilley, 34, also made the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, eat her own faeces and told her to choose her method of death.
She suffered multiple broken bones, deep lacerations to her face, including the "degloving of the skin", and had burns to 46% of her body.
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