Serial rapist is locked up for 29 years
A TWISTED sexual predator embarked on a sickening campaign of ‘humiliating’ rapes and sexual offences against terrified victims.
Oliver Wolstenholme, 38, committed horrific sexual attacks on several women over a number of years, a court heard.
On one occasion, the serial offender followed a woman home before attacking her in a graveyard and raping her. On another, he secretly recorded himself having sex with a woman before threatening to put it on social media if she refused to sleep with him again.
Wolstenholme, 38, was jailed for 22 years in November 2021 for rape; sexual activity with a child; inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and two counts of possessing offensive weapons relating to four other victims.
Wolstenholme, originally from Wythenshawe, has now been sentenced for further ‘multiple’ rapes as well as assault and voyeurism offences.
Sentencing at Bolton Crown Court, judge Thomas Gilbart said Wolstenholme, currently imprisoned at HMP Wakefield, was ‘quite determined to obtain sexual gratification irrespective of any of the desires of anybody else.’
Ben Lawrence, prosecuting, told how Wolstenholme raped his first victim on multiple occasions, including at knifepoint and in a graveyard.
He assaulted his second victim with a sex toy as she ‘screamed,’ the court heard, as well as raping her on ‘seven or eight occasions.’
Wolstenholme later ‘pestered’ his third victim to agree to let him see her in lingerie and secretly recorded her in the underwear and having sex with him.
In what Judge Gilbart called ‘a moment which crystalises the evidence
of [his] manipulation and cruelty,’ Wolstenholme kept the video – and stills – on a USB stick marked with the victim’s name and ‘bribe file.’
He later sent the video to the victim when she refused to have sex with him, threatening to put it on social media and send it to her family.
The victim told police Wolstenholme ‘caused havoc with her life’ if she did not have sex with him.
Wolstenholme was previously sentenced for kidnap and possessing an offensive weapon in a public place, as well as rape; sexual activity with a child; inciting a child to engage in sexual activity; possessing indecent images; possessing extreme pornographic images and meeting a child following sexual grooming.
Defending, Neil Usher previously told the court Wolstenholme had ‘begun to take some responsibility for what [he] did’ and admitted ‘something does not click right’ in his mind. Judge Gilbart said any mitigation was ‘strictly limited,’ but stopped short of handing a life sentence.
Wolstenholme was sentenced to 29 years in prison with an eight-year extended licence period.