The depraved rapist destroyed me

A woman who was threatened and controlled by a “depraved” rapist while working as a sex worker said she was left “destroyed”.

Nicholas Moxham, of Heaton Chapel, Stockport, was sentenced to a minimum of 19 years in prison after being convicted of a series of sex offences.

The 52-year-old had persuaded sex workers to move in with him and then abused and raped them, filming them doing so.

Colette, who waived her right to anonymity when speaking to the BBC, said Moxham threatened to break her neck and forced her to “question everyone and everything”.

The judge at Manchester Crown Court told Moxham that his offences were “aimed at satisfying his own deviant and selfish sexual desires”.

During the trial, it was reported that in the first weeks of the first Covid lockdown in March 2020, he lured six women to his home by convincing them that he could conduct their sex business online.

He raped some of them in their sleep, controlled their finances and threatened to force them to perform “disgusting and degrading” sexual acts for him and others.

Collette told BBC North West Tonight that Moxham approached her on the street in Manchester and offered to help.

“It was great at first, he was harmless, he just took me to get the drugs I smoked and let me take clients to his house,” she said.

Moxham arranged appointments for the women and invited clients to his home and another house in Longsight, Manchester.

He then filmed the encounters using peepholes and cameras hidden in enclosures.

The jury heard how Moxham encouraged or coerced his victims to offer other sexual services online.

Collette said his demands had become increasingly degrading, but he would threaten them if they refused to comply.

“You really couldn’t say no because it was on the street or in Nick’s way,” she said.

“It made him money and the things he asked for went too far.

“He threatened to break my neck. Tell my family. I was also out on bail at the time and he threatened to have me arrested.”

She added: “It destroyed me.

“He just left me feeling numb. I question everyone and everything.”

During the trial, it was reported that Collette and the other women fell into a spiral of debt after Moxham began charging them for stays at his house and told them to work off their debts by attending more appointments.

In May 2020, Collette left his house after learning that Moxham had raped her in her sleep.

She later found out that he had done it before and had filmed what happened both times.

“This man thinks he is untouchable, he thinks he is above the law,” Collette said.

Moxham was arrested in August 2021 during a raid on his home.

Det. Sgt. Lee Attenborough said his hard drive contained “huge catalogues” of secretly recorded material, some of which showed him raping unconscious women.

He said Moxham treated his victims “like property, as if he owned something.”

Moxham was found guilty of 32 crimes, including rape, controlling prostitution for profit, slavery and sexual abuse.

He had previously admitted other crimes, including the sexual abuse of a child under 13, taking and recording indecent photographs of children and operating a brothel for the purposes of prostitution.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 19 years.

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