‘Vampire rapist cut a cross in his chest and made girl drink his blood before drinking hers’
A court heard how a man accused of rape forced victim to suck his blood, before cutting her leg to drink hers
A theatrical prop maker with a “vampire fetish” carved a cross in his chest and forced a victim to suck his blood, a court heard.
Luke McCarthy, 28, then drank the woman’s blood — using a razor blade to cut her inner thigh, the jury was told.
The alleged victim — one of two women he is accused of raping — told cops he held her head to his chest wound.
She also said he drained blood into vodka to keep it fresh and forced her to drink that too.
Her ordeal came after she met him in a bar near his parents’ home in Southend, Essex, it was claimed.
Prosecutor David Harounoff said McCarthy kept a dog collar, a cage and a horsewhip in his bedroom.
He allegedly told the woman, who was aged around 18 at the time, that if she became his slave it would help cure her problem with alcohol.
She made repeated visits to his home, where she claims he handcuffed her, put her head in the plastic cage and punched her in the face.
As he raped her he ordered her to call him “master”, London’s Southwark crown court heard.
McCarthy told police following his arrest she was a consenting partner who was up for kinky sex.
He insisted in an interview: “It was just how we were sexually. She did want to experiment.”
The alleged rapist was also quizzed about wanting her to act as his slave.
He told officers: “Unless you are naturally submissive in certain ways, then you can’t have someone be dominant to you because you can’t get anything out of it.
“I basically said it might give her more to focus on.”
He said of the girl’s claims that he forced her to have sex: “She didn’t react in a negative way or say or give any indication that she didn’t want it to happen. It was more like an impulsive thing.
“There was nothing telling me she had any issue with it.”
Police asked him about his interest in blood. He denied having a vampire “fetish” — adding: “Not to the degree of going out biting people and stuff like that.”
He is said to have explained: “It’s unhygienic.” McCarthy then allegedly went on to mention the risks of gum disease and bad breath.
He allegedly told officers: “The exchange that can happen when the teeth and saliva mixes with blood, it can endure gingivitis.
“If that gets into the blood it can cause long-term issues.”
He said that blood swapping was more about “symbolism” than trying to be a vampire.
McCarthy pleads not guilty to four counts of rape between 2009 and 2013. His second alleged victim was a woman who spent three years as his girlfriend.
She was in her mid-20s when she started going out with him.
They moved in together in Essex — and would go to a London fetish club night called Club AntiChrist.
The ex described it as a “gothic industrialist fetish club”.
She claimed McCarthy raped her twice at the home they shared. During their relationship he would order her to go out without underwear, the court heard.
In a box in his room he is said to have kept a wand, camping knives and whips referred to as “floggers”.
During one alleged rape, he is said to have told her: “It’s not about you, it’s about me.”
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After they broke up in 2014 she spotted him at Club AntiChrist. The woman said he was wearing a gas mask. The prosecution told the jury a Facebook exchange took place between the pair. In it, the woman is said to have told him: “You f*****g raped me.”
The court heard that McCarthy replied: “Don’t you think I punish myself for that daily.”
The trial continues.