Woman raped for week by 'saviour'
A PREACHER who described himself as the Messiah and raped a young woman on seven consecutive nights faces years behind bars.
Paul Denton, 46, changed his name to Lord Denton by deed poll and claimed he was sent by God to save the people of Daventry.
But his victim told how he ordered her to submit to him as he quoted verses from scripture.
He described her allegations as “lies from the depths of hell” but was convicted after a three-week trial at Inner London Crown Court.
As the guilty verdicts were read out, Denton repeatedly asked for the opportunity to address the jury.
But this was denied by Judge Mervyn Roberts, who has postponed sentencing until December.
As he was led to the cells, he shouted: “Hallelujah, Jesus Christ is Lord, read Matthew 24.”
Denton first met his victim in 1996 at the Rainbow Gathering in France, when she was 19 and Denton, also known as Robin, was 33.
She said: “He told me he had lots of experience with prostitutes. When he was 15 his father bought him a prostitute for a present.”
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said he also believed the fairer sex should be submissive “because the scripture says”.
The 32-year-old, from Croydon, said: “He said I had to submit to him and to the Lord, he was quoting scriptures from the Bible. It got very violent.
“He was screaming in my face I’m a disobedient, evil woman and I have to submit to him.”
During one incident he headbutted her in the face and in another he pulled her down the stairs by her hair and throttled her.
After another attack Denton went to Russia for a month to customise an airship to spread the word of God.
Denton, now of Wembley, had allowed local children to use a bus outside his house as a playground. Judge Roberts said it was essential he had a pre-sentence report prior to sentencing him in December.
He said: “I’ll also need a report from a psychologist. I don’t mean to say you’re mentally ill. For you to be sentenced, all my sentencing options need to remain open.’
Denton, formerly of Hood Road, Daventry, and of Holcot, is thought to have regularly travelled around Africa and Eastern Europe as a Christian missionary.
He was found guilty of four actual bodily harm assaults, seven rapes and witness intimidation. He was cleared of indecently assaulting a child.
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