Grime artist Solo 45, whose birth name is Andy Anokye, was handed a jail sentence of 24 years for holding four women against their will and raping them repeatedly, reports The Guardian.
Survivors said he beat and threatened them with weapons, held a cloth with bleach over their faces and waterboarded them, recording much of the abuse on his mobile phone.
BREAKING: Andy Anokye AKA Solo 45 has been jailedhttps://t.co/SkDFyqSC1D
— Bristol Live (@BristolLive) July 30, 2020
The 33-year-old was convicted of 30 charges in March and admitted in court that he liked to “terrorise” women, but insisted they always consented to his “rape game”.
Anokye was convicted of 21 rapes, five counts of false imprisonment, two counts of assault by penetration and two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
“He tortured me for hours and in those moments I would’ve complied with anything for terror of him torturing or hurting me again," one of the survivors said.
Another wrote: “I had nightmares for about two and a half years where I would regularly wake up screaming and crying.” A third said: “He has ruined my life.”