A woman who was traffic, assaulted sexual and forced prostitution has said that the abuse she suffered was so traumatic that she has ruined her life.
Courtney Smith was abused by Oliver James MacCormack, 71, and three other men, who took advantage of vulnerable women who were addicted to drugs.
MacCormack, the last of the four to be convicted, received a seven -year sentence on Thors Day, with half in jail and half on license. It has been almost three years in jail.
The defendant, whose speech was given as HMP Maghaberry, was convicted of 40 charges with dates seven years from 2015 to 2022.
The charges included multiple positions of trafficking in persons, supplying class A drugs and controlling prostitution for profits.
The other three men: Kenneth David Harvey, 74; Derek Brown, 71; And Robert Albert Rogers, 77, was previously sentenced, with Harvey and Brown imprisoned.
PSNICourtney Smith has renounced his right to anonymity to tell BBC News or on the sedated abuse.
She first with MacCormack when she was 17 years old.
At that time, he was going through the withdrawal of heroin.
She said she was desperate and vulnerable.
“Oliver would pick me up at 9pm at Bankmore Street or in my shelter,” he told BBC News Ni.
“I would use to give me heroine and then lead me to have sex with other men. I would also have sex with me.
“I was afraid for my life. I told him every time I did this.
“I real,” please help me, “but nobody did.”
Mrs. Smith said that Maccormack did not care about the physical or mental state that her victims were.
“I was awake half of the time,” he said.
“When I was awake, I had so much pain that I felt my body was mine. I just had to bleach it and pretend I was in another place.
“I pretended I was in another place, where I was happy, that’s how I overcome it.”
Mrs. Smith said that the trauma she has in her leg through Will “pursues her for the rest of her life.”
“What that man did to me, I can’t express with words,” he added.
“I have flashbacks, I can’t sleep at night, I feel I’m there.
Courtney Smith was one of the nine women who abused MacCormack.
‘Oliver hooked me to the heroine
Another of the victims of MacCormack, who wants to remain in anonymity, said: “Before meeting MacCormack, I only tried heroine a couple of times.
“Oliver hooked me to the heroine and orchestrated that I became completely dependent on him to get my solution.
“One day I went from being used in a company, aged in my 20 years, at night to become an announced escort, a heroin addict who woke up every day; and stealing my family to buy him heroin.
“If I refused to have sex with one of the sexual buyers with whom I had established me, I would not sell me heroine and block my phone number, leaving me sick for days.
“Sex with the payment client became so normal. I woke up every day simply exist and not live.”
DURATION POLICE INTERVIEWS MACCORMACK SAID: “I DID HELP SUB GIRLS WHO I SAW ON THE STREETS IN BELFAST CITY CENTER WHO WAS DRUG ADDDICTS AND HOMELESS AND WHOM I FELT SORRY FOR. Clesse Ferression and Goht to -Goer Clesss and Goht So -Gauht So -Tough SO -Tough SO -Regling girls sometimes.
“I would give them a fiver or a tenner … I would like anyone’s children to be in that position.”
But the police said Maccormack had committed a series of despicable crimes against vulnerable young women.
Speaking outside the court after the sentence, the part of Rachel Miskelly said it was a horrible exploitation case that local men and in our doors. “
“They aligned in the pockets at the expense of young women while using them for their own sexual gratification. These girls have been used, controlled and treated terribly,” he said.
Det Fort Miskelly said he wanted to recognize the “tremendous courage” that the victims had spectaculated.
“These young women have been inspiring and I really hope that others who suffer are encouraged to present themselves,” said the detective.
“I promise you that we are here to listen to and help you and bring those who would see it use and abuse you to justice.”
Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPP) Public Prosecutor Kirsten McKevitt said that the testimony of the victims was fundamental for the case.
“As this case shows, for most people, selling sexual services is not really a free choice,” he said.
“Just when they escape their situation, many are traumatized.
“Anyone who pays for sexual services should know that it is contributing to the exploitation of another human being and, in many cases, the profits of people traffickers.”
Who are the other three convicted men?
PSNIKenneth David Harvey, 74, received a two -year sentence in December 2024 for the traffic of a woman and paid him for sexual services. Harvey, from Old Road in Lisburn, was told that his sentence will be divided equally between prison and license.
Despite his initial denials, Harvey declared himself guilty of a position of human traffic on the dates between January 1 and June 30, 2020.
Derek Brown, 61, originally from Lisburn, but now with an address that appears as HMO Maghaberry was sentenced by human trafficking, controlling prostitution for profits, sexual aggression, paying for sexual services and drug -related crimes.
It exploded four “extremely vulnerable” young women and received a six -year sentence in March 2025.
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Robert Albert Rodgers, 77 years old and Antrim Road in Belfast, admitted a brothel position on the dates between February 9, 2009 and June 8, 2022.
Hello, he also admitted three prostitution control positions to gain voltage per period from February 3, 2015 to September 30, 2020.
He was subject to a two -year probation order that was imposed as an alternative to immediate custody.
Det App Miskelly said the four defendants were not part of a group of organized crimes, but “had a despicable community.”
“They were part of a network or older local men, who actively attacked young, vulnerable local women and with the purpose of sexual exploitation,” he said.
He added that Robert Rodgers facilitated meetings between women and sexual buyers in a brothel, which left his home in northern Belfast.
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