A violent drug dealer who kidnapped and tortured his teenage girlfriends has been jailed indefinitely.

Steven “Dollar” Wilson is deemed so dangerous he will have to serve at least 10 years before he can even be considered for parole.

He will only then be released if he is no longer a danger to the public or the women whose lives he tried to control.

Baby-faced Wilson, 35, kidnapped both his victims and subjected them to vicious beatings during fits of drug-fuelled jealous rage.

One was snatched off the streets and bundled into a car outside Hove station in front of horrified witnesses when she was just 16.

The other teenager was dragged back into a flat he was using in Boundary Road, Hove, after she tried to escape from a savage beating.

Once inside the crack cocaine addict hit the 18-year-old so hard with a broom handle that it broke.

He continued the beating with a metal pole, his fists and his feet despite knowing she was pregnant.

At one point he snarled at her: “Twenty more hits and you will be dead.”

The terrified victim believed she was going to die and told herself: “Just hurry up and kill me.”

Wilson was found guilty of raping the first teenager and halfway through his trial last year he admitted kidnapping her.

He admitted kidnapping and assaulting his second victim and trying to intimidate her into not giving evidence as well as possessing cocaine and heroin with intent to supply.

Sentencing Wilson at Brighton Crown Court yesterday Judge Anthony Niblet said he would never forget the case.

He praised the courage of both victims in helping the police to prosecute Wilson and put him behind bars to protect other young women.

He added: “I have no doubt that you represent a danger to the public in the future, in particular to young women, of further sexual or violent offences.”

Wilson's first victim, who cannot be named for legal resons, was in court to see him sentenced.

She said: “I am pleased with the outcome.

“Finally I can now close this dark chapter in my life and move on.

“I am pleased justice has been done and would like to thank all the witnesses and Sussex Police for their support.”

Detective Constable Lindsay Valder-Davis, of Brighton and Hove anti-victimisation unit added: “Wilson was a controlling and manipulative man and justice has been done for his brave victims.”

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