A VIOLENT sex beast last week admitted raping and assaulting two women over a 10-year-period.

William Wardlaw, 46, from West Kilbride, battered one of his victims’s unconscious after she told him she was leaving him.

Window cleaner Wardlaw told the 43-year-old he was “going to teach her she was being disrespectful” before kicking her on the face and body until she lost consciousness.

At the High Court in Glasgow advocate depute David Taylor, prosecuting, said: “She did not wake until the next day and found herself in bed with the accused sleeping beside her.

“She described the scene as being like a murder scene, with blood everywhere.

“She could feel that some of her teeth were broken, her face was significantly swollen.

"When she looked in the mirror she began to cry.” The court heard that as the woman, who described herself as looking like a car crash victim, sat sobbing, Wardlaw said: “Shut up, don’t even start crying.” The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, suffered five broken teeth.

At the time, she told anyone who asked that she had fallen down the stairs.

Throughout the relationship with Wardlaw, she was frequently assaulted and raped.

Wardlaw frequently demanded sex after the violence and – when she said no – would rape her, saying she had to do whatever he wanted.

The assaults and rapes on the two women were committed between 2000 and 2010 at various addresses in Largs, West Kilbride and Skelmorlie.

Wardlaw’s other victim was first assaulted by him in 2000 after he accused her of flirting with another man.

He slapped her so hard on the face that she suffered a black eye and told her: “That’s what you get.” On another occasion in 2002, he grabbed her by the hair, pulled her to the ground and then kicked her after she refused to wear the outfit he wanted her to.

In 2006, when the 35-year-old woman told Wardlaw she was leaving him, he kicked her in the stomach, threw her to the ground and made her promise not to leave.

He then shouted at her: “Make sure it doesn’t happen again.” The court heard that he would often demand sex after he had assaulted her. When she said: “ No, you can’t make me,” and Wardlaw would reply: “Yes, I can,” and rape her.

Mr Taylor said: “She believes that violence was being inflicted on her about once a week, though not all of these episodes related to demands for sex. The accused has accepted that violent incidents were regular at this time, but believes that it was less frequent than once a week.” Judge Lord Uist told Wardlaw: “You have pleaded guilty to a series of very grave crimes.

"You may take it you shall be sentenced to a lengthy term of imprisonment.” He remanded Wardlaw in custody and deferred sentence on him until next month for background reports.

Defence counsel Lorraine Glancy will give her plea in mitigation then.