AN ALLEGED rapist told three doctors he had violent sexual fantasies that he feared he would carry out, a jury heard.

A young woman friend of John Kevin O’Neil claimed he told her he had tortured and raped one woman before “hanging her to death”, burned his mother with an iron and set her on fire, and got a third woman to re-enact the rape she had been subject to.

The friend claimed O’Neil then carried her into her bedroom, where, looking “extremely wild”, he raped her.

She alleged he told her at one stage: “I forgot, you are one of those good girls.”

In a recorded interview played to the jury, she alleged O’Neil had been helping her deal with separate relationship problems. One evening in July, he turned up at her house and started talking about his past.

“It was as though my friend was changing into someone different,” she claimed.

When he finished talking, she said, “There was just silence for a bit. He picked me up in a scrunched-up ball and carried me up to the bedroom.”

She claimed she objected to sex and that the rape went on until O’Neil fell asleep in her bed.

O’Neil, 44, of no fixed address, denies rape.

Opening the prosecution, Jayne Beckett claimed O’Neil went to his GP in April 2014 to say he was interested in sexual violence with women and referred to violence he had encountered in the past.

He was referred to a community psychiatrist, to whom he also described sexual fantasies, she alleged.

A week after the alleged rape, he went to a second GP, whom he told he was worried about his sexual fantasies and feared he would act on them.

“The crown say he had by then already acted upon them,” said the barrister.

Interviewed by police, he claimed the woman had consented to having sex with him and denied that she had been scared of him.

The trial continues.