‘I am going to make you suffer': Man threatened to cut ex-wife's fingers off with secateurs

Defendant has been convicted of raping, threatening and sexually assaulting his ex-wife at a time when they were still living in the same house

Accused pleaded not guilty to making threats to kill his ex-wife and cause her serious harm, sexually assaulting her four times, raping her once and carrying out two acts of oral rape — on the same occasion on August 2, 2019. Picture: Larry Cummins 

A woman told a jury at a rape trial that her ex-husband threatened to cut her fingers off with the secateurs in his hand and also threatened to kill her if she did not do what he wanted.

The 58-year-old defendant has now been convicted of raping, threatening and sexually assaulting his ex-wife at a time when they were still living in the same house.