DAUGHTER OF RAPIST COP HITS Dad’s a psycho, he’ll always be a danger to women.. Why did they let him out?

RAPIST cop Stephen Mitchell is today branded a psychopath who will always be a danger to women by his own DAUGHTER.

She gave the chilling assessment after the Sunday People revealed how the sex predator was freed after just seven years behind bars.

The decision sparked outrage from 50-year-old Mitchell’s victims – who could number as many as 30.

The pervert police constable was warned by the judge who sentenced him that he might never be released.

But in a damning interview, Mitchell’s daughter Abbey, 22, has revealed how her father…

TERRORISED her with violence when she was growing up.

BOMBARDED her with phone calls from behind bars, saying ‘You will always be my little girl’.

And she believes he FOOLED parole chiefs into thinking he was a changed man by taking sewing and embroidery classes in jails.

Abbey said: “My father is a psychopath and he will always be a danger to women.

“He’s pulled the wool over the eyes of the Parole Board but he’s not changed a bit.”

Abbey was just 15 when she discovered her father had raped and sexually abused vulnerable women, including heroin addicts and a disabled girl, after offering them help while they were in custody at a police station in the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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He was given two life sentences at Newcastle crown court in 2011 after being found guilty of two rapes, three indecent assaults and misconduct.

He was told he would not be eligible for parole for at least seven and a half years, with the warning he might never be fit for freedom.

Abbey said: “I think he is a psychopath who feels no empathy but has learnt how to fake emotions to get people to do what he wants them to.

“He is calculating, manipulative and dangerous – he is now and I believe he always will be.

“He has managed to convince the Parole Board that somehow he is a changed man, but I just don’t believe that can be the case.

“Through the family I have been told he spent time in prison in groups doing needlework, embroidering cushions and making greeting cards.

“He would record voice messages telling me he loved me and that I would always be his little girl, but I saw through that. It wasn’t the voice of a loving father. It doesn’t matter how many cushions he has sewn, he has not changed.

“When I saw the photographs of him in the Sunday People I knew from that look in his eyes that he’s the same man he was. Nothing has changed and that’s a very frightening thought.”

Abbey was aged around eight when her parents split because her mother could no longer tolerate Mitchell’s actions in the home. Mitchell, originally from Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, manipulated his impressionable young daughter into believing her mother no longer loved her. It led to Abbey living with Mitchell for around six months, a period she now looks back on as a time of fear. She said: “I know that I used to be a daddy’s girl and that we spent a lot of time together. “When my mum and dad split he turned me against her. I now realise that she loved me and desperately wanted me to be with her and away from him. He told me she didn’t care, that she wanted nothing to do with me. I now realise the time that I had with him was not a normal relationship between a father and child. I remember him once in my bedroom becoming so angry that he punched a hole in the wall.

Menace

“On another occasion he was brushing my hair and because it was thick it was pulling and I cried out.

“He hit my hand so hard with the hairbrush that it drew blood.

“Now I can see that incidents like that were about him controlling me just as he had to control everyone.

“He carried real menace that went much further than parental authority. The fear I was living in wasn’t clear to me until I went to stay with my mum.

“It was supposed to be for just one weekend but I never went back.”

Abbey refused to see her father but he continued to phone. She said: “I didn’t trust anything he said and couldn’t feel comfortable around him.

“I think even as a child I had seen through him and had realised he was putting on an act.”

As a child Mitchell would take Abbey into the police station and let her sit in his patrol car. But any pride she may once have felt in his career came crashing down at the age of 12. Mitchell’s colleagues from Northumbria Police arrived at the family home to inform her mother he was being investigated over a series of rapes. Abbey said: “I was devastated, disgusted and angry. “I told my mum, ‘As far as I am concerned he is no longer my father’. I don’t claim to speak for any of