A WOMAN has told how her sick boyfriend raped her live on the internet as web perverts watched her terrifying ordeal.
Samantha Miller suffered years of abuse at the hands of twisted Sean Johnstone, who also held a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her if she did not have sex with his pet rottweiler.
The 35-year-old has spoken out for the first time about her ordeal, which she likened to “spending two years in a horror film”.
Miss Miller told how her ex, was caged in 2012 for 17 years, stubbed out cigarettes on her body, poured buckets of wee over her and raped her in her sleep.
Speaking about the attacks, she said: “It was like spending two years in a horror film, I would wake up with him on top of me.
“The laptop was on in front of me and he said people were watching, that it was connected to a seedy chat room.
“He was trying to get me to do things with his rottweiler. He brought it into the bedroom. He was trying to get me to have sex with the dog.
“He held a knife to my throat and told me that if I didn’t, he would kill me.”
Johnstone, 43, was found guilty of a string of charges including rapes, indecent assaults and possession of child abuse images and animal porn at Teeside Crown Court.
Samantha, who has waived her right to anonymity, said her terrifying ordeal began when she started dating Johnstone in 2006, four years after moving to Hartlepool from Chelmsford, Essex.
But he soon started to control her life, throwing out her make-up and dictating what clothes she wore.
After suffering years of abuse, the former care worker finally fled a week before Christmas in 2008.
Police told her initially there was not enough evidence to press charges but two years later Johnstone’s second victim came forward and they corroborated each other’s accounts.
Samantha said: “He was convicted of every charge. It was unanimous, by every member of that jury.
“When they read out the first guilty verdict I started shaking. When they got to count 27 I burst into tears.
“I went back for the sentencing the next day, they took him past me in his wheelchair. I said ‘Who’s in control now?’.”
Judge Simon Bourne-Arton said Johnstone had a “deeply unhealthy interest in sexual depravity”.
But despite her former boyfriend being locked up, Samantha says she is still terrified about being recognised by someone who watched her ordeal when it was broadcast on the internet.
She said: “If someone says ‘I’m sure I recognise you from somewhere’, I think ‘have they seen me being raped? Is that where they recognise me from’. I’m constantly paranoid.
“My life has been taken. I may be alive but because of what’s happened, I’m not me any more. I want to stop that happening to other people – there is a way out.”
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