Dros rapist: ‘It was the drugs … I can be an amazing person’

Convicted Dros rapist Nicholas Ninow presented himself to court on Wednesday as a broken man and a drug addict suffering from depression and bipolar disorder.

During sentencing proceedings he recounted how had a troubled, drug-addled childhood, and how his addict mother had introduced him to chemical drugs.

Tearing up at one point, he read out a poem he had written for his seven-year-old victim.

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