Extreme porn shame of 'Brad Pitt lookalike' stealth rapist
| Published date | 16 May 2023 |
| Publication title | Daily Record, The / Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) |
Ford, 33, was last week found guilty of raping and abusing seven women and forcing one to watch bestiality porn.
Glasgow High Court heard Ford sexually, physically and psychologically abused his partners over a 12-year period from the age of 18.
Ford, of Stirling, was a jobbing actor and model who starred in Deacon Blue's This Is a Love Song video and claimed he was a stand-in for Brad Pitt in World War Z.
On dating apps, he targeted successful professional women, love bombing them and quickly moving into their homes to leech off them financially.
Ford was convicted of five counts of rape including the stealthing charge after the woman, a psychologist, had only consented to sex with a condom but he then deceived her and didn't use one.
He was also found guilty of two rapes of a 41-year-old luxury fashion buyer he met in 2008 after she had come out of an abusive relationship.
She said: "I was at a low and when someone tells you you look amazing, it's exciting and intense - you latch on to it."
After he secured women's trust, he shifted tack, undermining them with horrendous verbal abuse and criticism of looks, weight and personality.
He told women they were his "social" and "psychological experiments" and wrote lengthy lists of their "flaws" and "things you should work on".
Ford took intimate videos and photographs of them, often covertly, and threatened to show the images to their employers and family.
One victim said he would fly into sudden rages throughout their one-year relationship.
She told the court: "Dealing with his temper was like walking up to the executioner's block. You just wanted it over with."
Sobbing throughout her evidence, she said he derided her as fat, "a washed-out hag" who needed a boob job and she was privileged to date him.
The woman said he was obsessed with sex and extreme pornography, including bestiality.
At one point, he gripped her head to stop her turning away in disgust and screamed: "Don't be sick on my sheets b***h".
Ford was convicted of possessing large quantities of bestiality pornography on his phone and laptop and he admitted to searching and bookmarking dozens of rape fantasy videos. In one day alone, he searched "forced sex" on a porn site 15 times.
In evidence, he told Advocate Depute Leanne Cross he was just being "daft" but she replied: "Actually, you enjoy seeing...
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