28-05-2025
Serial rapist jailed for attacking three women abandons bid for freedom
Liam Sharpe was jailed in February after being convicted of carrying out a campaign of cruelty, violence and rape against his former partners.
A serial rapist who was jailed for attacking three women has abandoned plans to appeal his conviction and sentence.
Liam Sharpe was jailed in February for 13 years and 10 months after being convicted of carrying out a campaign of cruelty, violence and rape against his former partners.
All of the mums bravely gave evidence in court to see Sharpe –who was already serving a four-year jail sentence for domestic abuse convictions against two of the women – jailed for raping them.
In April, Sharpe, 37, of Coatbridge, launched a bid for freedom after instructing his legal team to challenge his conviction and sentence.
He was given a deadline of April 30 to file papers setting out the grounds of his appeal.
It has since been deemed abandoned.
Speaking previously, one of the women said: 'Liam Sharpe is a narcissist and has not one bit of remorse.
'He will never take accountability for what he has done.
'He shouldn't ever be let out as he is a danger to women. He needs to be kept locked up.'
The mum had told a jury how she was subjected to a torrent of violence by Sharpe, who raped her, choked her with a TV cable, tried to suffocate her and drove over her foot with his car.
Another of the mums had previously spoken out in the Sunday Mail and told how a secret coded message for help she sent from a holiday abroad saw Sharpe arrested after their plane landed in Glasgow.
The mum told how she sent a message via her child's Amazon Kindle device from a Turkish hotel room 2500 miles away to alert a friend after violent Sharpe had tried to strangle her.
Sharpe was also convicted of brutally raping and assaulting another woman repeatedly over a five-year period.
He was convicted of nine charges involving serious domestic abuse and multiple rapes of the three women at various addresses in Coatbridge, Motherwell and Barrhead.
It followed a six-day trial at the High Court in Glasgow where he was convicted of carrying out a campaign of cruelty, violence and rape between December 2013 and January 2023.
Sharpe was also convicted in 2022 of a series of serious domestic assaults against two ex-partners. He was given four more years.
Sentencing him, Judge Gillian Wade KC said: 'Each of your victims described the same pattern of control, abuse and manipulation set against your habitual substance abuse.'
He was put on the sex offenders list and banned from approaching or contacting the women.
