A serial rapist who forced his victims to wear latex bondage masks during his attacks also headbutted one of them as she was giving birth to their baby.
Keith McBain, 31, has now been locked up for 14 years after he was found guilty of six charges including rape, indecent assault, and assault to injury at addresses in Aberdeen.
All three of McBain’s victims were forced to give evidence in court after the dangerous predator refused to accept his guilt.
One of them, a 38-year-old woman, described how his campaign of violence and intimidation even carried on while she was in labour with their son.
She said: “He was really angry and quite aggressive because I was in labour and he wanted to go to his bed because he’d been out drinking the night before.
“I drove me and him to the hospital. He was in a foul mood. While we were waiting to go through to the labour ward, he threw a 500ml bottle of Irn Bru at my head and hit it while I was in labour.
“He also came over and headbutted me on the side of my head. I felt upset and really emotional. I was in labour, which is obviously a difficult time as it is.”
During their relationship from January 2017 until January 2020, the woman said that she was sent abusive messages on WhatsApp and Snapchat.
McBain’s vile messages included: “U fat c***…Hope u get aids. ill.smash ur f****** face u fat f***. Ur a fat slut…hae a misscarrage u cow”.
In another incident, he threw a remote control at the mother of his child while she was holding their baby.
McBain also forced his partner to take part in “perverse” sexual things in the bedroom.
She said: “He was into very weird, sick, perverse things. He would buy these latex gimp masks. He made us all wear them. He’d force us to wear them.
“If I was crying, it would make him more into it.
“I would say, ‘no, I don’t want to do this’, but the choice was, ‘do you want me to beat you or rape you? You decide’. He said that to me.”
‘The first red flag’
After the 38-year-old reported McBain to the police, an investigation was carried out and two other women told remarkably similar stories.
One of them, a 29-year-old woman who was the first among three victims to date McBain between April 2010 and February 2012, said she met him when she was just 16.
“He wanted to become official really quickly. Looking back, that was probably the first red flag,” she said.
“When I tried to call off the relationship, he wouldn’t let me.
“He was just relentless with messages, phone calls, turning up to my house.”
She says he controlled and isolated her and on one occasion said he hoped she “would get cancer and die”.
She said she was a “wreck” for days after giving evidence at the High Court in Aberdeen.
She described it as McBain’s “last abusive act”.
‘Humiliating and degrading’ acts
The woman explained that, because he pleaded not guilty, she was forced to tell a jury about the “humiliating and degrading” things he did to her.
“He didn’t even have the compassion to put us out of our misery by pleading guilty,” she said.
“It just felt he was pleading not guilty to be cruel.
“Nobody really knows what it’s like when the bedroom door closes and you don’t really want to tell anyone either.
“You’re just scared of being judged or blamed and you’re already judging and blaming yourself for allowing it to happen.
“But I didn’t want to regret not getting justice for the 18-year-old me, the one that didn’t know that he should’ve been reported back then.”
The woman, who’s since received counselling, said McBain was “into bondage” and paid no regard to her protestations to stop.
She said: “Even when I said no to those things, he just did it anyway. It was more the discomfort it caused me that he found arousing.
“In court, we had to talk about the ball gags and whatever else he used.”
Psychological impact
Both women have spoken of their relief that Keith McBain is now locked up at the prison in Peterhead.
When he is eventually released he will be forced to abide by a court-imposed non-harassment order with all of his victims for an indeterminate period.
The pair are now trying to move on with their lives but the 29-year-old said: “The psychological impact is a lot harder to heal than physical injuries”.
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