Ayr rapist who killed family pets to exert control convicted

Former bouncer Paul Hill, 55 , of Kings Park Drive, Ayr, was convicted of raping four women and physically assaulting eight women.

At the High Court in Glasgow judge Lord Mulholland told Hill: "You used coercive and controlling behaviour. You abused and belittled them. You harmed their pets as a way of punishing them.

“Your behaviour was cruel and despicable.”

The court heard that dad-of-three Hill raped one women a fortnight after she gave birth and had internal stitches.

Lord Mulholland told Hill: “You came home drunk and said you wanted sex. She repeatedly told you to stop. The pain was excruciating and she was crying, but you just carried on.

“These women are stronger than you though and it was their evidence which will put you behind bars for a long time.”

Hill was ordered to be monitored in the community for three years after his release from jail.

Defence counsel John McElroy representing Hill said: “He continues to maintain his innocence."

The sadistic monster drowned a former partner’s pet parakeet, killed another’s tiny kitten, threw a third girlfriend’s cat out of a window, and threatened to harm his own Alsatian bitch when a fourth woman told him she was leaving him.

Hill denied committing a string of sexual and violent offences against former partners in Aberdeen and Dundee over a 22-year period and claimed any sex was consensual. 

He claimed he acted in self-defence when he strangled a 59-year-old grandmother at a Christmas party until her face turned purple after drunkenly shouting “I’m a killing machine.”

His victims said that Hill,was an evil "psycho" who verbally abused, beat, strangled and raped them.. One said he attacked her after she put a CD in his alphabetically arranged collection in the wrong place.

One terrified mum-of-two sobbed as she told how she took her children to her mum's after she caught Paul Hill having sex with another woman in their bed.

Later he phoned threatening to kill the family’s 18-year-old pet parakeets if she didn’t return.

She said: “I went home later on that night because I knew he wasn't in the house.

“The kids went into the house and they saw there was only one bird in the cage. They found the other parrot drowned in the kitchen sink.

"He drowned it, because the sink was filled up with water.”

The 38-year-old said that Hill hit her “more than once a day”. She said he was charming at first but then completely changed.

She said: “He became evil, losing his temper all the time, nasty and drinking. His eyes would glaze over and he looked like he was possessed.”

She said she was repeatedly raped, beaten and abused by Hill. Once, she said, when she failed to cook a steak to his liking, he stabbed her in the back of the hand with a serrated knife leaving a scar.

Another ex-girlfriend told how Hill wrecked the Tayside apartment he shared with her after she left him because of his violent behaviour.

She said. “I had a kitten. It was only a little wee kitten. He killed my kitten.”

The woman, a 32-year-old B&B manager, said that several times when she’d said ‘no’ to sex Hill started to strangle her.

She said: “His whole face – his eyes – would change, He was like a completely different person. His eyes would go really dark. He just looked really evil.”

Hill was also convicted of throwing another woman’s cat out of the window of a flat in Kincorth, Aberdeen.

Hill, who appeared in court via a video link, was placed on the sex offenders’ register.