A RAPIST who is accused of forcing himself on two more teenage girls in the 1980s and 1990s has told a jury he has been wrongly convicted in the past.

Orville Vaughan, 56, said at his trial in 2012 the jury got the verdicts wrong, and a year later he pleaded guilty to get a lesser sentence even though he was innocent.

And Vaughan, who says he is subject to a ‘witch hunt’, insists he doesn’t know either of the women who now accuse him of raping them when they were teenagers.

Vaughan, who is currently serving 17 years for four sex attacks, is said to have raped a girl in the late 80s, when she was 16 or 17, and a 14-year-old in 1994.

He told Swindon Crown Court he was born in Barbados and came to the UK as an eight-year-old, living in Reading before moving to Swindon in his late teens.

When he got together with the mother of the first of his four children he said they moved in to a two-bed council house on Cranmore Ave in the mid '80s.

He said the first two convictions came after a trial where he pleaded not guilty and was cleared of raping a third woman by the same jury.

When he was before a judge a year later he said he was told his previous convictions would go before a jury, so he opted for a shorter sentence by pleading guilty.

“I know for a fact I did not rape any of those women,” he told the court.

He said he didn’t know the woman who currently says he raped her in the Brunel car park in the '80s, and had never had sex in a car park.

And he said he never knew the second woman, who said she was 13 when he forced himself on her in a flat in Queen’s Drive.

The jury heard the property had been the home of his pal and the sister of the girl’s pal, but he said he had never been there.

Vaughan said that he had been ‘promiscuous’ in the past and more often with girls younger than him, but he insisted he never raped anyone.

Of his previous convictions he said three he had not had sex with, only ever having a ‘peck and fumble’ with one of them and had consensual sex with the fourth.

When he was questioned by police in August last year he told them that he is ‘a victim’, as well as the women who he was convicted of raping.

“It is just like some kind of witch hunt going on. All these allegations man: it is just rubbish, total rubbish,” he told detectives.

“Someone out there has got it in for me. I am being wrongly convicted from day one. I am just a normal everyday guy with kids trying to live my life.”

He said: “Somehow they convinced you guys I am some sort of monster.”

And he told them: “I am a victim being in here. No one is worrying about me. Am I not a victim? I know the truth but they are not telling the truth.”

He said in the past he had used the surname Thompson, his set father’s name, and got the nickname 'Bov', a shortened form of Bovril which sounds like Orville.

Vaughan, of Allington Road, Penhill, denies two counts of rape. The case continues.