A besotted prison officer who became 'obsessed' with a rapist inmate nicknamed 'The Devil' lost their unborn baby after their secret abusive romance turned violent.
'Manipulative' ex-con Kade Sibthorpe, 29, was arrested after punching his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach and threatening her at knifepoint at their Manchester home last December.
Sibthorpe, of Swinton, Greater Manchester, forced his lover to drive the pair up into moorland in just her dressing gown and slippers and became violent while they waited outside a Tesco Express in Oldham.
Sibthorpe was arrested days after his girlfriend terminated her pregnancy, but his victim continued to contact him, sending naked pictures of herself and using a false name to visit him while in custody.
He was sentenced to 21 months behind bars after being convicted of coercive control at a Manchester court, after jurors heard how he called his lover a 'sl**' or 'dog', and went through her personal possessions. Charges against him of procuring a miscarriage and kidnap were dropped.
In her victim statement, his girlfriend admitted considering taking her own life at one point during the couple's 18-month fling, and said the ordeal left her feeling 'very damaged'.
She added: 'I went into shock and lost myself. He would think in a vindictive and manipulative manner and abused my trust and affection in him.'
'Manipulative' Kade Sibthorpe, 29, of Swinton, Greater Manchester punched his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach and threatened her at knife point last December
Convicted rapist Sibthorpe (pictured centre making an offensive hand gesture) met his lover while he was serving a six year sentence at Category B HMP Bure in Norfolk. She worked as a prison officer on the same wing as him
Minshull Street Crown Court heard the victim met Sibthorpe two years ago while he was serving six years at HMP Bure in Norfolk having been convicted in 2017 of raping a young mother in the dead of night at her own home.
Prosecutor Henry Blackshaw explained how she had worked on the same wing as Sibthorpe and fell for the rapist despite knowing the reason he was in prison.
The pair admitted they started an 'intimate' and 'inappropriate' relationship at the Category B prison.
The woman even went as far as moving to Manchester to be with Sibthorpe once he finished his six-year sentence, meeting him once he stepped off the train on the day of his release.
Mr Blackshaw said: 'She states that her termination of employment with the prison service in Norfolk and her move to Manchester was to stay with a friend of hers and for a change of career.
'But whilst that account was not true, it is clear is that having entered a relationship with the defendant it was controlling and abusive.
'They very quickly formed an intense relationship where they were effectively living together.
'She was, and to a degree seemingly still is, obsessed with the defendant but gave an account to police of how thoroughly unpleasantly the defendant would behave towards her.'
On December 15, 2020, the woman discovered she was pregnant with Sibthorpe's child but did not plan on keeping the baby.
She told officers when Sibthorpe returned at around 10pm that night he flew into a furious rage and 'punched her' in the stomach, before threatening her with a large kitchen knife.
After forcing her on a late-night drive through moorland, the pair were seen at around 11am the following morning at a Tesco Express store in Oldham, where they had a violent confrontation that was witnessed by the store's employees.
Sibthorpe was sentenced to 21 months in prison at Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester after he was found guilty of coercive control
The visibly upset
