EXCLUSIVE: Why was he ever let out? How woman-hating ice fiend with a cowardly history of bashing women brutally raped his new partner just MONTHS after walking from jail
- Troy Jenkins, 41, of Morwell was jailed for nine years with a minimum of seven
- The ruthless thug lashed out in court and needed to be removed by guards
- Jenkins had repeatedly tormented women before savaging his latest victim
- Father of teen daughter had only just got out of jail when he attacked again
- The jealous and insecure bully berated his victim while violently raping her
A jealous boyfriend has brutally raped and bashed his latest lover only months after getting out of jail.
Troy Jenkins, 41, ought never have been allowed to have offended the way he so violently did in October 2017.
The brute had been tormenting women for as long as any of them were unfortunate enough to give him any attention.
Troy Jenkins, 41, is the father of a teenage daughter himself. He is also a violent, woman bashing thug
Troy Jenkins, 41, is a woman bashing coward who savagely raped a woman he hardly knew
In 1999, a then young Jenkins grabbed a woman’s breasts at an Ararat nightclub - in country Victoria - and was convicted of sexual assault.
He copped a fine after blaming it on a drunken night out.
Ten years later he would be sentenced to jail over a shocking domestic violence incident which saw him convicted of making threats to kill, harassing a witness and reckless conduct endangering serious injury.
He had also contravened an intervention order - one of many he would go onto ignore.
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Again the courts showed him mercy and his six month jail term was wholly suspended for a year.
Jenkins ignored the chance and spent the full six months in jail.
In the years that followed Jenkins became increasingly more dangerous.
He was using heroin and committing assaults.
In October 2010, he attacked an ex-partner and her new boyfriend, hitting the woman before fleeing.
With the six months Jenkins was already serving, he would serve just two more for the ugly attack.
On June 20, 2017, Jenkins was sentenced to six months in jail over yet another attack on a woman.
The victim was another woman who had been in an intimate relationship with him for just a couple of months.
He had fought with her about her use of social media, punching her face in before smashing her iPhone and burning her personal belongings in the kitchen sink.
Again, Jenkins was served with a family violence safety notice.
Again, he breached it.
He was still serving a community corrections order for that attack when he met-up his last unfortunate victim.
Troy Jenkins, 41, will spend the next seven years sleeping in a jail cell under 22 hours of lockdown
He gained her trust dispite being hooked on ice only to go on to degrade and demean her at the whim of his paranoid obsessions.
The jealous rage he could not control kicked-in immediately.
Jenkins would demand her phone, call her friends and attempt to coax them into giving information about secret lovers she did not have.
‘Sorry, I got f**ked in an alley,’ he texted one friend from her phone.
‘Yeah it was a different nice guy.’
‘It was good.’
A week later his victim tried to kill herself and was taken to hospital.
But the torment continued.
Jenkins began tracking her phone and became fixated with the notion that she was sleeping with other men and would constantly accuse her of being unfaithful.
At one point he snapped her phone in half.
Another time he forced her to drive him to a location she honestly claimed she had been at.
When no-one answered the door, Jenkins made no secret he was displeased.
A day later he accused the woman of sleeping with her boss.
He was sure she had and claimed to 'feel' evidence within her that did not exist.
He raped her brutally in her own home, throttled and bashed her.
He yelled at her, calling her ‘a liar’, ‘a dog’ and ‘a sl*t’.
He left the woman black, blue and naked.
But he wasn't finished yet.
Troy Jenkins, 41, raped, bashed and dragged his victim around by her hair (stock image)
Jenkins dragged her by the hair across the bed, tearing a clump out.
He threatened to cut her throat and refused to allow her to dress when he was done.
'You can sit there like the fat sl*t that you are,’ he told her.
When he was finished he begged her for another chance and told her that he would go to a doctor to organise drug and alcohol counselling.
Of course he didn't.
And days later he was at it again.
The woman bravely broke free, but not before he attacked her again.
She went to the police and reported him that day.
Later that night, Jenkins started up the text messaging.
First came the apologies, then came the threats.
‘I don’t give a f**k if I get charged with assaulting you ... I obviously did it,' he wrote.
‘Should (have) gave you more.’
Reluctantly, the woman allowed Jenkins back into her house.
It was a mistake she would live to regret.
Jenkins accused her of sleeping around, assaulted her and began calling her friends off her own phone.
The woman managed to send off emergency emails to a friend and the police came to her rescue.
But Jenkins continued to ignore the intervention orders.
So brazen was his offending that he once threatened to kill a police officer who answered her phone and then threatened to kill her too.
Founder of the National Homeless Collective Donna Stolzenberg (pictured) said services to support women trying to escape intimate partner violence are woefully inadequate.
By October 27 - three months after he walked out of jail - Jenkins was back inside.
He has remained there for the past 892 days.
Jenkins eventually pleaded guilty to rape and a swag of assault and stalking charges.
On Thursday, County Court Judge Michael O'Connell sentenced him to nine years in jail, with a non-parole period of seven years.
'Your treatment of (the victim) was absolutely appalling. It was calculated to terrorise her and it succeeded,' he said.
'You gained her trust and formed an intimate relationship with her only to go on to degrade and demean her at the whim of your paranoid obsessions.'
A furious Jenkins was removed from the court before the judge could even finish telling him his non-parole period.
Outside court, founder of the National Homeless Collective Donna Stolzenberg said services to support women trying to escape intimate partner violence was woefully inadequate.
'Many women are forced to stay with their abuser because there is no safe pathway out,' she said.
Ms Stolzenberg said victims of domestic violence in Victoria had no effective support available to safely leave their home.
'Moving house is a stressful situation for anyone but packing up an entire house when you’re badly injured and psychologically traumatised by your abuser is so daunting many women simply cannot face it. They’re effectively trapped,' she said.
Ms Stolzenberg said women trying to escape abusive relationships need to wait up to nine months for any kind of support or counselling.
'Until there is a safe and effective way for women to leave we will continue to see the rates of domestic violence related deaths rise,' she said.
