A DEVOUTLY religious prison visitor who fell in love with a convicted rapist serving life at a Yorkshire jail was attacked at knifepoint after she ended their relationship.
The West Yorkshire woman fell for the man while he was in Wakefield Prison.
The middle-aged woman visited him for two-hours once a fortnight at jails across the UK until his release on licence to a hostel.
Soon he was spending weekends at her home and they became engaged.
TO READ MORE FROM THIS CASE, CLICK HERE.But the woman, who cannot be identified, told a jury the man would go "absolutely crazy" when he could only have sex with her two to three times a week.
She spoke of her terror when he allegedly attacked her with a carving knife at her home after she told him they were finished.
"He held the knife to my throat and said: 'well, this might make you change your mind.' As soon as I saw the knife I said oh please God no.
"I remember saying to him for goodness sake I love you, why are you doing this?"
She added: "I must have gone into a bit of a frenzy, I thought my time had come. I just started looking in his eyes saying (the prayer) Our Father... I was shouting please help, he is going to murder me, he is going to rape me."
The woman said after the man started cutting his own stomach she fled through the kitchen door and alerted neighbours.
She had earlier told the jury: "At first he was just like any other prisoner. I started to tell Kevin not to get emotionally involved because I knew he was but it just developed.
"For the first six months things went very well. He was very kind and very caring, I always found him to be like that when he was in prison."
But she told the jury the relationship started to sour towards the end of 2006. "He started saying 'there's no such thing as God' and then he started praying to Satan. He had written all nasty stuff at the front of the bible."
She added: "He didn't feel I was as forthcoming I suppose as I should be. When he wasn't having enough sex I think it must have affected his hormones and he was quite irritable."
The jury heard when she met the man he was serving a life sentence for rape.
He denies affray and committing an offence with intent to commit a sexual offence.
Proceeding
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