A DUDLEY man has been told by a Judge he must spend at least eight years in prison after he brutally raped two women in separate attacks in the area.

Judge Hilary Watson said 37-year-old Ali Walleed, of Hellier Street, posed a real danger to women and she ruled he would only be allowed back onto the streets when the authorities deemed him to be safe.

Walleed had denied the two rapes but he was convicted by a jury at the end of his trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court.

The Judge gave him an indeterminate prison sentence for the offences and said he would have to stay on licence and also register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

She told Walleed. "I am satisfied you are a liar and a fantasist" and she said it was clear he had put his two victims through the ordeal of giving evidence for his own sexual gratification.

"I find your attitude towards women very disturbing," said the Judge. "You treat them as sexual objects and you enjoyed seeing your victims give evidence so you could hear the lurid details of what you had done."

The Judge said Walleed - described as deceitful, manipulative and ingenious - had attacked his first victim in her own home at night.

"You intimidated her and you threatened her with a knife. You also took a metal coat hanger and actual violence was used.

"You then raped her and left her feeling fearful and abused."

The second victim, she added, was attacked 14 months later by Walleed and she had difficulties giving evidence because at the time of the brutal crime she had been in a drunken state.

"You took advantage of her," said the Judge. "Then you removed her mobile telephone which was her only means of communication. You then left her distressed and injured in the street where she was found by a passer-by and taken to hospital"

The Judge told Walleed, who repeatedly protested his innocence to the offences from the dock, he was "dangerous" and his crimes had badly affected the two women who had been left with long term damage.

The court was told Walleed had a previous conviction for robbery where he had produced a syringe to his victim which he said contained blood infected with the aids virus.