An “abusive and violent rapist” has been given a 23-year extended jail sentence for a “campaign of rape".

Now Christopher Moore, 30, of Coombe Valley Road, Dover has been sent to prison for 19 years, with the judge adding another four he must serve on licence when he is released.

It will mean that he will have to wait until 2029 at the earliest before he can even ask for parole.

But he will only be released if and when he is considered by the authorities to no longer pose a threat to women.

The judge heard how on one occasion his victim looked at a photograph of her dead father to shut out the humiliation of being raped.

Judge James O’Mahony told Moore: “You bullied, humiliated, frightened and threatened your victim..which amounted to a catalogue of cruelty, reducing your victim to a shell of the person she once was.”

The jury found him guilty of nine rape charges and on the judge’s direction, after Moore admitted his guilt, formally returned guilty verdicts on harassment and a behaviour charge.

The judge also heard how Moore was once convicted of causing serious harm to a four-week-old child by shaking.

Prosecutor Dominic Connolly had told Canterbury Crown Court that after the victim reported the offences, Moore set about a course to intimidate her.

Even though he was locked up in prison, he managed to get her number and then sent threats so she withdrew her support for a prosecution.

Later he strangled, punched, smothered with a pillow and kicked his victim and threatened to kill her pet dog and carried out a series of sick attacks.

The vile bully told her: “When I want it..I’m going to have it!”

“You bullied, humiliated, frightened and threatened your victim..which amounted to a catalogue of cruelty, reducing your victim to a shell of the person she once was" - Judge James O'Mahony

He also threatened to “reunite her” with her dead parents – the judge adding: “And there is only one explanation as to what you meant by that.”

Judge O’Mahony was told that since being remanded in custody he had begun to have “insight” into himself and now accepts he had “deep-seated problems which he is now resolved to tackle in prison.”

Judge James O’Mahony told him: “It is my job to assess criminal behaviour and to find the right words to describe it.

“However heinous and grave the crimes, it has always been my practice not to use insulting words towards a defendant.

“So I stop short of calling you a monster but the evidence given in this trial has disclosed monstrous behaviour on your part and it is highly likely you are extremely dangerous towards women.”