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A paedophile whose partner is accused of murdering their two children in a Spanish hotel was jailed for 16 years today.
Former television hypnotist Martin Smith, 45, who used violence to groom and sexually abuse a young girl, carried out the attacks over a nine-year period.
While he waited to go on trial his partner Lianne Smith suffocated their two young children just days after he had been extradited back to Britain.
She has admitted asphyxiating the youngsters with a plastic bag and is due to go on trial for murder.
Her partner's victim, who is now in her 20s, told the jury during his case how he would try to hypnotise her and hit and bully her to ensure she complied with his demands.
He was found guilty of 11 specimen charges of rape, attempted rape, indecency with a child and indecent assault, spanning nine years from May 1995 to May 2004, in December.
As he waited to go before the judge, his daughter Rebecca, five, and Daniel, 11 months, were found lifeless on the bed in the Hotel Miramar in Lloret de Mar on May 18 last year.
Hilary Manley, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court today that Martin Smith began the abuse by forcing the girl to touch him intimately.
On occasion he would turn violent, act in a 'domineering and bullying manner' and use hypnotism in an effort to bend her to his will, the court heard.
