A ‘sadistic and controlling’ rapist who threatened a woman with a gun before sexually assaulting her has been jailed for 15 years. Ryan Beard, 26, had been following the woman and tracking her movements using a device he’d placed in her car. He’s also installed a spy-wear app on her mobile phone in the weeks and months leading up to the attack on the night of May 11, 2023, when he lured her to his flat by posing as someone else. Damning mobile phone footage, recorded by Beard, showed him place an imitation firearm to her head and into her mouth before repeatedly threatening to kill her if she …