A TEETH-whitening salon boss, 31, who raped and sexually assaulted customers in his clinic has been jailed.
Vile Ricky Stubberfield attacked five women, all in their 20s, at Essex Smiles when he was a co-owner and manager between 2022 and 2024.
Plymouth Crown Court heard Stubberfield reached out to multiple women on Instagram.
He offered them free treatments in exchange for business promotion on social media.
The court heard how he launched assaults on four of his victims while they were in the chair wearing a mouth guard during teeth-whitening treatment.
On another occasion, the sicko exposed himself to a mother and her young child at the counter.
But Stubberfield had been targeting victims, aged between 16 and 27, elsewhere from as early as 2013.
In 2022, a 16-year-old girl also reported to police that Stubberfield had raped her in a toilet during a concert and sexually abused her in a separate incident.
Another woman reported being raped by Stubberfield twice in 2021.
And in 2013, Stubberfield sexually assaulted a woman he met on a dating site.
Judge Robert Linford described the twisted rapists’ offending as “utterly remorseless predation”.
Stubberfield was convicted on 23 sexual offences, including eight counts of rape, nine counts of sexual assault, four counts of assault by penetration, one count of making indecent images of a child and one count of exposure.
He was caged for 26 years, with an extra six on licence, and placed on the sex offenders’ register for life.
Upon sentencing, the judge said: “I have looked at the circumstances of the offences, the almost nonchalant way you committed them and the way you defended these allegations at trial.
“It is part of your personality, it is part of what you are and it is worrying in the extreme.
“You do pose a significant risk of causing serious harm to the public by committing further specified offences.”
Stubberfield was originally arrested on June 9, 2024, after several women came forward reported him.
One victim told the court in an impact statement: “Ricky has always been a person who used his power to fulfil his toxic needs.
“He doesn’t seem to understand that his behaviour is wrong, or that it inflicts irreparable harm.
“He craves attention and dominance without any concern for the person he hurts.
“He finds satisfaction in the humiliation and degradation of women.”
A spokesperson for Devon and Cornwall Police described how Stubberfield asked officers “if they found one of his victims attractive”.
Detective Inspector Marcus Hodges, the senior investigating officer, said: “I welcome the sentence given today to a man who preyed on young women for over a decade.
“My utmost thanks and praise are with the victims who not only had the courage to report the offences, but to support the police investigation and give evidence in court.
“Their strength and bravery is admirable, and I sincerely hope that they may find some closure and be able to start moving forward with their lives following this outcome.
“I also hope it may encourage others and give them the confidence to report crimes and know that they will be taken seriously.”
Laura Opie of the Crown Prosecution Service also paid tribute to the women who bravely gave evidence against Stubberfield at trial.
She said they revealed “a horrifying picture of a man who repeatedly abused women for his own sexual gratification”.
