A beast who boasted he was a gangster has been convicted of repeatedly raping women. Curtis Hendrickson put a knife to one victim's throat and threatened to kill her after she tried to signal for help.
He beat his second victim so badly with a broom that it snapped. He was brought to justice after the second woman walked into a petrol station badly injured and wrapped only in a curtain.
The 33-year-old denied raping his victims, claiming he'd had consensual sex with them both. But he was convicted of 11 counts of rape following a trial.
He was also convicted of an offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, failing to comply with the sex offenders register, possession of a controlled drug and possession of an article for use in fraud.
Birmingham Live reports that Hendrickson, of the Birmingham suburb of Erdington, quickly 'moved on' from one vulnerable victim to another in a matter of days.
He committed 11 rapes in just a few weeks, targeting the first woman seven times and the second woman four times, all between November and December last year.
Prosecutor Antonie Muller told the court that both victims had problems with homelessness and accommodation and were preyed upon after he befriended them.
The jury heard he tried to retrieve his first victim's mobile phone from some people who had stolen it from her, and also told her he was 'part of a gang'.
Afterwards, they went back to his address and smoked before he pushed her on to the bed and raped her. She told police investigating his crimes: "He said he was going to give it to me whether I liked it or not."
She said he 'acted like nothing happened' afterwards and that similar attacks later took place. She also told how he 'clocked' her trying to seek help from a female member of staff in a McDonald's branch in the city.
She said that he held a knife to her throat later that day and said: "I can't let you live. I can't trust you again." On December 15, 2022, she reported the abuse to someone at her supported living accommodation.
But by the time police arrived to investigate he had vanished, and he was not traced by officers until Boxing Day. Mr Muller said: "The indictment tells you where he had been. He had been with [the second victim].
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"The Crown's case is he moved on to her. She turned up at a garage in the early hours of Christmas. She's dressed only in a curtain and very, very badly injured.
"Just like [the first victim] she too had dialled 999 and she was still on the phone when a very surprised cashier having a lonely night shift sees the girl turn up heavily injured, wrapped in a curtain and on the phone to the police talking about being raped, asking for help. Mercifully he did help."
He will be sentenced on January 8 next year.
