Vampire rapist chews off victims' faces
Spurned by girlfriend, he bites off her nose, ear and cheek
NP, June 29, 2006
HE was sentenced to five years' jail in 2003 for brutally stabbing a woman and holding her hostage during a 19-hour ordeal.
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Andrew Wild was sentenced to life in prison for his violent crimes.
But Andrew Wild was released two years early on the condition that he wear an electronic tag so his movements could be monitored.
Barely two months after his release, Wild viciously raped and beat up another woman, biting off parts of her face and laughing while he did it.
Last Friday, Wild, 40, was sentenced to life in prison for his violent crime.
The court heard that Wild, who is from Bury, Greater Manchester, had befriended his 38-year-old victim shortly after his early release, reported the British papers.
They got into a relationship, and Wild tried to propose to her twice.
When she wanted to stop seeing him, Wild snapped. He grabbed her and told her: 'You're not going anywhere.'
He then removed his electronic tag, and dragged the woman to Uppermill, where he held her hostage on a canal barge in a seven-hour ordeal.
On the barge, he bit off part of her nose and ear, bit her cheek and smashed her head against a wall. He also threatened to kill her children.
When officers found the victim, she was covered in blood. Bits of her flesh were also recovered from the barge.
The woman, who had to undergo plastic surgery, later told police that Wild was like 'a wild dog and a vampire', laughing as he attacked her.
Wild eventually pleaded guilty to rape, causing grievous bodily harm with intent, false imprisonment and assault.
This was not the first time that Wild had been so violent.
The court heard that he had two previous convictions for causing grievous bodily harm when he bit off part of a previous partner's ear and chomped of parts of another man's ear and eyelids in an attack in 1992, reported the Manchester Evening News.
Then in 2002, Wild was arrested for attacking his then girlfriend, Ms Christine Speed, and holding her hostage in an armed siege in Failsworth.
He also stabbed her in the arms, chest and legs.
And when armed police officers tried to coax him out of the house, he whipped out a chainsaw and threatened to kill them.
In February 2003, Wild pleaded guilty to false imprisonment, perverting the course of justice, threatening to destroy property and affray.
But even though Wild was given a life sentence this time round, British campaigners have criticised the legal system for releasing him early despite the severity of his crime.
'This is just a typical example of how the government and judiciary fail to keep the streets safe and the public safe,' said Mr Norman Brennan of Victims of Crime Trust.
'People should serve their full sentence, the government is more keen to keep people out of prison than in prison.
