A sadistic beast who repeatedly raped his ex-girlfriend and tortured her lover could be out of jail in less than ten years.

Jealous Terry John, of Commerce Road, Wood Green, wired his victim's testicles to the mains and told him: "This is Death Row. This is how they execute people in America."

On Wednesday an Old Bailey judge sentenced John to a total of 37 years in jail for rape, two counts of causing actual bodily harm, and two counts false imprisonment.

But the sentences will run concurrently -- meaning he will serve a maximum of only ten years.

His victims, a 29-year-old woman and her 31-year-old salesman boyfriend who cannot be identified, were held prisoner for 34 hours in March this year.

During that time John tied the salesman to a chair and raped his girlfriend, forcing him to watch and read out passages from the Bible.

John then forced the man to have sex with his lover as their abuser looked on.

The salesman was electrocuted in the testicles and back, slashed across the chest with a bread knife, beaten with a wooden pole, and locked in a cupboard.

He told the court: "I just wanted to die. There was nothing I could do to escape."

The jury heard how John finally packed his bags, threatened his victims not to go to the police, and calmly walked out of the flat, but they alerted neighbours who called the police and an ambulance.

After his arrest, John, 33, denied subjecting the couple to their ordeal, but the jury found him guilty.

Judge Ian Davies sentenced him to ten years for each count of false imprisonment, four years for each count of actual bodily harm, and seven years for rape, to be served concurrently.

The court also heard how John already had two previous convictions for assaulting the woman, and a further c

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