‘Vampire rapist’ sucked blood from victim

A vampire rapist carved a cross into his chest and made the victim drink his blood, a court heard.

Luke McCarthy, 28, then sucked blood from her leg as part of his Dracula-inspired fetish, jurors were told.

McCarthy allegedly raped a second woman three years later after meeting her at a ‘gothic industrial fetish club.’

David Harounoff, prosecuting, said the first woman was forced to sleep on McCarthy’s floor with her head in a cage.

McCarthy punched her in the face and told her she was ‘sort of attractive’ to him, Southwark Crown Court heard.

In an interview with police the woman explained: ‘He has this vampire fetish – he cut his chest in the shape of a cross and blood came out.

‘He got the back of my head and made me suck it out – I had no choice, I had to suck the blood.’

The woman then had her leg cut as part of McCarthy’s fetish which he in turn sucked up, the court heard.

‘He was sucking it up because he was biting on the sides – really really sucking, it was painful.’

The court heard how McCarthy could ‘charm any person to make him look like the most wonderful person on earth’.

‘He switches completely from being this terrifying person to being a really nice guy,’ the alleged victim told police.

McCarthy is alleged to have grabbed the woman by her hair and pulled her towards his bedroom.

The alleged victim repeatedly asked McCarthy to stop and he simply replied: ‘master’ to indicate how he felt she should address him, jurors heard.

McCarthy allegedly threatened the woman’s family, telling her: ‘I know where your sister is.

‘If you tell anyone the same thing will happen to her but a lot worse.’

He is said to have met the second woman at Vauxhall’s Antichrist Club.

She described the venue as a ‘gothic industrial fetish club that combines elements of the goth scene, the industrial music scene and the fetish scene’.

She described McCarthy as ‘very controlling’ in her police interview and claimed he told her: ‘It’s not about you, it’s about me.’

The woman spoke of how she allegedly tried to fight McCarthy off and said he was ‘very keen on domination’.

McCarthy claims that the sex was consensual and that the vampire act was ‘symbolic’ so that the two people would have a ‘special’ connection.

McCarthy, of Dorset Road, Vauxhall, denies four counts of rape.

He allegedly raped his first victim twice, between August 31 and October 1 2009, and the second woman twice between December 1 2012 and January 6 2013.

The trial continues.