Rapist tortured ex partner for two days

A rapist who spent two days sexually torturing his ex-girlfriend has been jailed for 19 years. Paul Thomas, 49, terrorised the victim and forced her to submit to him. He turned up at her home in Penge, south London, on November 7, 2019 and spend the next 48 hours violently and sexually assaulting her. During the ordeal Thomas threatened to kill the woman and strangled her until she lost consciousness. She managed to call 999 and Thomas was arrested as…