Derry councillor calls for sex offender to be 'castrated' after couple subject vulnerable woman to repeated sexual assaults

A Derry City and Strabane District Councillor has called for a man behind a series of shocking sex crimes to be 'castrated'.

Long-serving UUP Alderman Mary Hamilton made the comments on the BBC Radio Ulster's Stephen Nolan Show.

Alderman Hamilton became emotional when discussing the case and said that the man should be 'castrated', 'tortured' and 'given a taste of his own medicine'.

Keith Baker was sentenced to 15 years in jail yesterday after he and his wife Caroline Baker kept a vulnerable woman in a squalid room without carpet, a light bulb, bedclothes or curtains, for eight years.

She was repeatedly sexual assaulting during this period.

Police rescued her from the house in Craigavon, County Armagh, in 2012.

The woman, who had severe learning difficulties, was emaciated and had only a single tooth left in her mouth.

She weighed just six stone when she was found.

Caroline Baker was sentenced to 18 months in prison.