A MILLIONAIRE who led a double life as a twisted sex beast has been jailed for drugging and raping victims in his home film studio.
Ian Elliott, 71, presented himself as a pillar of the community in the small village in West Sussex where he lived.
Ian Elliott has been jailed for 18 years after drugging and raping men in his homeSussex Police
Sussex PolicePolice found memory cards full of sick abuse pictures[/caption]
But behind closed doors, the predator secretly filmed himself raping men who were so drugged they had no idea what had happened.
Elliott’s vile crimes were only exposed when police discovered hours of sick footage recorded at his home studio “The Penthouse”.
Videos included violent attacks involving riding boots, straps and a wetsuit.
Elliott has now been jailed for 18 years after admitting 43 charges, including 11 rapes, eight sexual assaults and 17 counts of voyeurism.
His victims, all in their late teens or early twenties, branded the tycoon a monster in harrowing victim impact statements.
One said: “There are years I will never get back.
“This monster was not the man we all believed him to be. I still, and will be for a long time, be picking up the pieces of his mess. I suffer from nightmares and I long for the day this case is not consuming my brain and we can live a normal life.
“Not only is he a rapist, sexual abuser and liar, he is a con artist and a monster.”
Serial predator
Another said his life would never be the same after he discovered he had been drugged and sexually assaulted.
He said: “At least there will be justice and the community will know the truth about who he is and what he does. Now he’s caught and can’t do more horrific things, the public will know how evil he really is.”
Hove Crown Court was told Elliott was well-known in the village of Wisborough Green and was chairman of the sports club and ran the social club.
The rapist, who sold his business in 2019 for £3million, would gain his victims’ trust then groom them with lavish holidays and trips in his helicopter and boat.
The tycoon asked the men to call him Boss or Boss Man – a name he used for himself.
He would lure them to his home and use drugs to render them comatose.
Elliott then filmed the horrific abuse in more than 90 hours of recordings, which he would repeatedly watch back.
He also took hundreds of photographs, which were found on memory cards he asked a friend to dispose of.
This is the only appropriate outcome given the multiple lives he has ruined as a result of his relentless campaign of sexual abuse, hidden behind the façade of a trustworthy pillar of his local community.
Detective Superintendent Miles Ockwell
The last sexual assault was in June 2017 when Elliott was 64 but police fear there could be more victims.
He was initially charged with 92 counts but his guilty plea for the 43 charges was accepted.
Elliott will serve at least 12 years in prison before being considered for release. He was also sentenced to a further five years on extended licence.
Detective Superintendent Miles Ockwell said: “Today’s sentence means that Ian Elliott will spend a significant amount of the rest of his life in prison.
“This is the only appropriate outcome given the multiple lives he has ruined as a result of his relentless campaign of sexual abuse, hidden behind the façade of a trustworthy pillar of his local community.
“I want to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the bravery of Elliott’s victims who came forward to help us bring him to justice.
“They will live with the effects of the horrendous abuse they have suffered for the rest of their lives.”
Sussex PoliceElliott pictured outside the home film studio[/caption]
Sussex PoliceElliott, pictured during his arrest, gained the victims’ trust before grooming them[/caption]
Sussex PoliceHe referred to himself as boss[/caption]
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