A depraved pimp forced got teenagers hooked on drugs and forced them into prostitution – raping some of his helpless victims.
Violent thug Junior Chester Bryan moved to Middlesbrough in the 1990s and used his force of personality and violence to intimidate his victims, a court heard.
Bryan, 63, raped two teenagers in his bedsit and gave another victim a cannabis joint laced with heroin so she became dependent on it, and on him.
One victim met him in a nightclub when she was 18 and had never tried any hard drugs before, but by the time she was 19 she was addicted to crack and heroin and became a prostitute under his control.