A MAN has been caged after he forced a woman to drink his urine during a terrifying eight-hour ordeal.
Benjamin Woodrow, 41, locked the woman away in a vicarage and beat her over an period of eight hours after reading messages on her phone.
Woodrow, from Clare, West Suffolk, launched his vile attack against the woman in the early hours, waking her up with punches and slaps.
He proceeded to strangle her around the neck with both hands before locking her away in a bathroom.
Woodrow was living with his brother, the Reverend Mark Woodrow, in a vicarage in Clare at the time of the harrowing attack, reports the Sudbury Mercury.
The terrified victim was unable to escape after the cruel man threw the bathroom key out of a window and stole her phone away, preventing her from calling for help.
For eight hours the woman was locked in the bathroom with Woodrow returning to the room repeatedly to beat her.
At one point during the ordeal, in a sickening act, the vile man urinated in a bowl and forced the victim to drink it.
If she stopped drinking Woodrow would use degrading language and threats to force her to continue.
The fiend was arrested three days after the incident when a third-party disclosed information about the horrific attack to cops.
He was bailed but breached conditions when he messaged the victim threatening to harm himself.
The abusive man was found guilty of assault by beating, false imprisonment and using controlling or coercive behaviour by majority jury verdict.
Woodrow appeared before Ipswich Crown Court on Friday 3 October for sentencing.
He was slapped with a 30-month prison sentence and handed a restraining order for seven years.
At the sentencing trial recorder James Waddington told Woodrow: “I get the firm impression that you don’t think you’ve done anything wrong.”
Woodrow responded: “That’s not true.”
In a victim impact statement read to the court, the woman said that after she had drunk the urine Woodrow called her stupid “as though I had a choice not to drink it”, she said.
According to the victim she became “incredibly anxious” during the ordeal and began to have a panic attack.
The court heard Woodrow told her that she was pretending and to stop.
An officer from Suffolk Constabulary commended the victim’s courage in coming forward and speaking against Woodrow.
The senior copper said Woodrow posed a “significant risk to women.”
Investigating Officer Detective Sergeant Thomas Handley-Howard said: “This was a deeply disturbing case, where the victim was subjected to prolonged and degrading abuse.
“Some of the other behaviours displayed by Woodrow included checking the victim’s phone, using derogatory names and threatening to harm her or himself.
“These behaviours indicate a significant risk to women with his need to control and coerce through violence and psychological abuse.
“He then denied any wrongdoing, forcing the victim to relive her experiences in court.
“I would like to commend the victim’s courage in coming forward and supporting the investigation to secure this conviction.”
