The ex-wife of a “psychopath” who raped her 900 times has told how she narrowly escaped death.
Kathleen McMurchie was brutalised by Brian McTaggart for six years in which she received frequent horrific abuse.
Last month, McTaggart, 53, was found guilty of sexual and physical abuse against 18 victims.
He will be sentenced in November after he was convicted of raping three women, indecently assaulting teenage girls and boys and physically abusing other women and teenagers in Dundee over 21 years.
Kathleen, who has waived her right to anonymity, said: “It is sheer luck that he didn’t kill me or someone else. He is a psychopath.”
When she met him, she found him funny – “the life and soul of the party”
After a year together, when she was three months’ pregnant, they married, the Daily Recordreports.
His abuse began the day after their wedding andhe ordered her to bring him tea.
She laughed, thinking he was joking, but he told her: “You belong to me now. You do what you are told.”
When she refused, he dragged her by the hair, through to the bedroom, threw her on the bed and raped her.
When he had finished, he stood up and told her: “Now make my f****** tea.”
Kathleen said: “There had been no sign that he was a violent man.
“I was in shock. I couldn’t believe what had just happened. I had been raped and was black and blue. It seemed unbelievable to me.”
As she sat sobbing, McTaggart told her: “Shut up or I’ll give you something to cry about.”
Days later, he raped her again in what marked the beginning of a prolonged campaign of violence.
That same week they married, he lifted her off her feet and laughed as he held her over a four-storey balcony.
She said: “I looked down and thought I was going to die. It was terrifying.
“Then, when he felt like it, he put me down and beat me.”
When McTaggart went out, he locked Kathleen in the house. She was imprisoned with no hope of escape.
As well as raping her at least twice a week, the brutality and psychological torture was relentless.
When she was seven months’ pregnant and having a bath, he came home, plugged a hairdryer into an extension cable and dangled it over her head.
He taunted her, saying: “Look what I have for you,” and despite being heavily pregnant, she flew out of the bath as the hairdryer splashed into the water.
Kathleen said: “I heard the splash just as my feet touched the floor. A few seconds later and my baby and I would have been dead.”
In another attack, McTaggart strangled Kathleen until she passed out.
She came round to see him frantically slapping her face, panicking that he had killed her.
He flew into a rage when she came round, accusing her of playing dead.
Then he beat her worse than before, kicking her body and punching her in the head.
Over time, McTaggert’s cruelty ground Kathleen down until she was numbed and depressed.
She said: “I used to lock myself in the toilet and stare at the razor blades.
“I thought death was my only escape – but I couldn’t leave my children.”
McTaggart even told her that if she killed herself, he would go to a seance and continue the torture.
One night as they drove along a country road, he turned to her and told her he was going to kill her.
He sped along the road, gripping her with one hand and steering with the other as she opened the door and tried to jump out.
Then he swerved head-on into a pole. As Kathleen sat shaking from the shock, he reversed the car and told her he would do it again – then smashed into a fence.
He threw her out on the road and as she staggered in the dark, he sped the car towards her, missing her by inches.
Like most abusers, McTaggart was a despicable coward and made her sleep closest to the door in case they were burgled.
Bizarrely, he lined shoes up against the bottom of the bedroom door so he could tell if she had been up in the night.
In the morning, she was often in terrible pain because she hadn’t even been able to use the toilet.
She did find the courage to try to leave him and one night called the police – but it was the 80s and they weren’t sympathetic as they are now.
Officers told her to lock herself in the flat with her three children but when she refused to let McTaggart in, he accessed the loft through the close and set it alight.
As the smoke seeped into her home, she was compelled to open the door and he grabbed her keys and put out the fire. He then beat her for calling the police.
She said: “I didn’t care any more whether I lived or died. I felt I would never get away from him.”
But then Kathleen met William, a man who not only helped her to escape but brought her happiness as her future husband.
McTaggart was scared to confront William and she escaped his clutches.
The couple have been together for 28 years and he is a kind, decent man.
Kathleen was contacted by police investigating McTaggart’s serial brutality and she agreed to give evidence to end to his reign of terror.
But she said: “Even in court, I was frightened he would escape the dock and attack me.”
She is satisfied that McTaggart now faces a lengthy sentence when he appears in court next month.
She said: “He should never be released. He is a dangerous man with no conscience who could easily kill someone. I am just glad that he can’t hurt anyone else now.” continued unabated in the years to come.
On their first full day of marriage, they were in the living room when
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