A VIOLENT sadist, branded a danger to women, should be locked up for life to stop him offending again, one of his victims warned today.

Andrew Delsol, 50, was given an extended 13-year sentence at Bradford Crown Court this month for imprisoning and terrorising a young mother.

Delsol, of Gaythorne Road, West Bowling, Bradford, will serve eight years in prison and an extended five years on licence after he was convicted of false imprisonment, common assault and possessing a bladed martial arts weapon.

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Nicola Slater told the court she was locked in his flat for 12 hours at a time and he would froth with rage and threatened to "bust her skull open".

Delsol had been jailed for eight years in 2002 after slitting a 16-year-old girl's throat and telling her he was going to chop her up with an axe while she was alive.

He had previously been given a 15-year jail term for torturing a Bradford woman with a blowtorch, beating her with a stick, burning her and forcing her out of an attic window with a rope round her neck. That occurred when he was on bail awaiting trial for a sadistic attack on another girlfriend, fracturing her skull.

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He is also the subject of a Violent Offender Order, which bans him from contacting a number of named women, both previous victims and women he befriended.

One of those victims has now come forward to describe her two years of terror at the hands of Delsol and to warn other women to keep away from him when he is freed again.

The 43-year-old woman, formerly of Bradford, described Delsol as "an evil madman" who calculatingly charmed and then manipulated women.

The woman, who fled Bradford to start a new life in a different part of the country, said she was still mentally and physically scarred 14 years after her ordeal.

She told the Telegraph & Argus: "How can the law allow someone like him to be given just eight years?

"It is absolutely disgusting. He has served sentences of 15 years, eight years and two and a half years, and yet he still does this to another woman. Enough is enough. He should be put away for life. I don't want anyone else to get hurt ever again.

"I was overjoyed when he was convicted. I thought someone would put this man away for life."

She added: "He preys on vulnerable women. I was a struggling single parent when I met him. I was vulnerable. He had just been released from the 15 year sentence, but I didn't know what he had been locked up for.

"He was a charmer. He talked about how women should be treasured. He promised me so much love, but he did the total opposite. As soon as he had me in his grip he changed.

"He took control of my mind. I wasn't allowed to talk to anyone. He insisted I covered my hair. He took control of my mind and body and I am still coming to terms with it."

The woman told how Delsol had beaten her on a daily basis, stabbed her with a screwdriver, poured petrol over her head and threatened to set it alight, dragged her naked out of bed and left her hanging from a landing, and took her to woods in order her to beat her.

She said: "He once hit me so hard I couldn't breathe and thought I was going to die. He made me write down the addresses of all my family and said there would be repercussions for them if I left him.

"At the time I was too scared to go to the police. I fled from him so many times but he always came looking for me and dragged me back. In the end I broke free, moved away and went into a refuge.

"I still walk around with the mental scars and suffer depression. I have the physical scars, too. The whole thing was horrific. I still have flashbacks and nightmares and still cry because of it.

"He was prolific and he won't change. He is evil and sadistic and just turns violent."

Detective Inspector Pam Mills, of the Bradford District Safeguarding Unit, said that Delsol was "clearly a very dangerous man". She said police in the district were committed to making sure vulnerable people were given the protection they needed.

Det Insp Mills added: "No-one should suffer in silence, and I would urge any victims of abuse to contact the police, who will investigate all reports sensitively and thoroughly."