A 'dangerous' sexual predator raped a woman while she was unconscious then messaged her years later to 'get closure'. After attacking the woman at student accommodation in Cardiff in 2019, Nathan Thorburn contacted her out of the blue.
09.04.2023 - 16:57 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
When Theo told Eve* on their very first date he had spent time in prison over a decade ago for 'shoving' an ex-partner, she took his honesty as a sign he had changed.
The pair met on Tinder and, after their first date, the relationship moved quickly. They bonded over similar troubled childhoods, and over the coming weeks, Eve felt herself falling for the man who was 'clear' that any violent past was just that - a past that he had left behind ten years ago.
But just a month later after they started seeing one another, Eve began receiving messages on social media from another of Theo's exes, who claimed that he had been 'physically abusive' towards her during the course of their previous, long-term relationship.
Eve, who has asked for names to be changed out of concern for her safety, says Theo had already 'warned' her about this ex by this point. He had told her that she was 'jealous' - and he even showed her 'nasty' messages she had sent him about Eve since they started dating, criticising her appearance and asking him why he was dating her. When she confronted him with the woman's allegations, he insisted she was lying.
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"I would never normally believe the jealous ex story, but the way she spoke to me left me really unsettled," Eve told the Manchester Evening News. "I believed him because I couldn't understand why if you were really concerned for someone else, you would try and warn them in that way."
So, Eve stuck by Theo - a man she was falling in love with, and who she felt she had no reason to distrust. "I'm a believer in giving people chances,"
A 'dangerous' sexual predator raped a woman while she was unconscious then messaged her years later to 'get closure'. After attacking the woman at student accommodation in Cardiff in 2019, Nathan Thorburn contacted her out of the blue.
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