A MAN convicted of a string of sex attacks has gone on trial for further offences after more alleged victims came forward.
Former Territorial Army captain Brian Witty, 42, was found guilty last year of three offences of rape and one of sexual assault against four different women.
Now, following publicity of the case by the Mail, three more women – including two from Hull – have come forward to claim he attacked them too.
Prosecutor Edmund Gritt told Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court: "They describe him as somebody who is charming, confident on the verge of arrogant, violent and who takes sex by force, using his physical strength if he is refused."
The jury was told banker Witty, who served in the Parachute Regiment, had been convicted in the same court last April for attacks on four women. Publicity of the case prompted the three new alleged victims to come forward.
Witty denies raping them in 1989, 1997 and 1998.
The court heard Witty, recently of Twickenham Road, Teddington, met the first of the latest complainants in Hull.
He allegedly raped her when she stood him up in Liverpool after she had moved there to further her studies.
"Her first impression was that he was charming, fun and engaging, but also cocky and very confident," said Mr Gritt.
"She soon discovered that Mr Witty's personality had a different side that was intimidating, jealous and violent."
The jury was told after she moved to Liverpool, Witty tracked her down and turned up at her lodgings.
"She was terrified," said Mr Gritt.
"He held the door open, punched her and forced her back in the room.
"He punched her repeatedly all over and she curled herself into a ball to protect herself.
"He sat on of her, holding her down, and at one point put his hands around her neck."
The woman later told people Witty had beaten her up, but not that he had raped her. The second of the latest alleged victims had been staying overnight on a sofa at an address in Hull, where Witty and a couple were also staying.
"There, in the small hours, she was woken by this defendant pulling her to the floor," said Mr Gritt.
"He held her down and put his hand over her mouth.
"He was much stronger and she was frozen with fear. This defendant then raped her.
"He said nothing, but simply looked smug and stood up with a smirk on his face as if something funny had just happened."
Witty is said to have struck again days later, raping the third woman in London.
She had been introduced to him by a friend as someone who would look after her.
"The defendant reassured her that he did not have any ulterior motive, but sex was all that was on his mind," said Mr Gritt.
The jury heard he raped the woman in his Kensington flat – where he had attacked another victim previously.
The young woman told her doctor and friends about the rape but did not inform the police.
Like the other two complainants, she only went to the police after learning of Witty's convictions last year.
The trial is expected to last three weeks.
