A VIOLENT pimp could become 'a wild animal' with in seconds claims a woman who was beaten and raped by Junior Bryan.

The complainant met the defendant when she was just a teenager and he was almost 50, when two friends took her from a village near Darlington, where she was temporarily living, to his Middlesbrough home.

The teenage prostitute, who admitted she was addicted to crack cocaine from an early age, ended up staying at the defendant's home after her friends returned to Hurworth without her.

Teesside Crown Court heard she made a complaint about Bryan, known as JC, in 2005 when she was raped for one last time. However, she then refused to co-operate with the police and the investigation was closed down.

In a police interview in 2017, the complainant told officers how the defendant beat her as he dragged upstairs before subjecting her to vicious sexual assault.

Jurors heard how someone else came into the bedroom when they realised something was wrong and she managed to alert them to what was happening and they called the police.

The woman said when officers arrived at the house she was tied to the defendant with a pair of tights but managed to mouth the words "help me".

Bryan was arrested but subsequently released.

The officers asked her if the reason she stopped co-operating with the police in 2005 was because she was frightened of Bryan, she said: "The thing with JC is that he can change in the blink of an eye, that's when he can become like a wild animal."

When asked how the attack made her feel, she replied: "I was feeling like I wanted to die."

The complainant told the officers how Bryan also forced to hand over her cash from working the streets to pay for the crack cocaine that he was supplying her.

She added: "He was awful, I would go out to work to buy drugs off him and he would take everything. He was well and truly disgusting."

Bryan, who is charged with the rape of the teenager, is facing a catalogue charges from 1993 to 2013 against eight women.

The 63-year-old is facing 32 charges, including multiple alleged rapes, false imprisonment, dealing Class A drugs and living off the earnings of prostitution.

Earlier in the trial, jurors heard that the alleged offences happened in Darlington, Middlesbrough, Leeds and London.

Bryan, of Marton Road, Middlesbrough, denies all charges.

The trial continues.