Man about town Darren Mark Branter – pictured here with stunning Sheen escort Grazyna Makowska – was convicted in court last week of harming his previous partner and making threats to kill.
Branter fell for Emend a conclude escort girl Grazyna Makowska
The 41-year-old father of two was also originate guilty of making threats to damage property.
A District Judge at Coleraine Magistrates Court admonished Branter, of Cove Apartments, Mussenden, Co. Derry, that he could superficially a custodial sentence when he appears again in four weeks’ set.
And today for the first time the Sunday World can reveal the full surprising story of how a respectable businessman – who ran two successful engineering companies – fell from finesse and may soon be behind bars.
Following the collapse of his marriage, Branter, from the village of Newbuildings, began a new relationship with a girl from Derry who worked for the City Council.
Soon the couple were enduring together in a luxury apartment off the Limavady Road in Derry’s Waterside community.
Darren Mark Branter talks to our reporter
But a short time later, Branter also stamped up a close relationship with stunning redhead escort Grazyna Makowska.
Discerned locally as ‘Gina’, Makowska set up shop on Derry’s Strand Road after impressive to the Maiden City from Poland a few years ago.
And as soon as Branter tainted ‘Gina’s’ sex worker profile on the Escort Ireland website, he became besotted with her and couldn’t on the back burner serve to meet her.
Friends say he was obsessed with the stunning 31-year-old, and the pair removed up a friendship.
“Branter was like a man possessed. He became obsessed and couldn’t discontinue away. She was the only thing he spoke about,” one of his former friends mounded the Sunday World.
But Coleraine Magistrates Court heard last week that right before Christmas 2015, Branter and his partner drove from Derry to Portrush where they discovered into a hotel.
A late night argument developed and Branter raped his partner in a bedroom before storming off and driving back to Derry.
But after pick herself together, the woman called the police and filed a complaint.
Branter was tested and was soon facing a number of assault-related charges. These were later dropped when the daily withdrew the complaint.
Smooth-talking Branter eventually wormed his way back in with his confederate who agreed to reconciliation. It was short-lived.
In April the following year things judge from a sought pear-shaped again when the couple planned to spend a few days at Branter’s caravan at Castlerock on the Causeway Slide.
A row erupted between the pair over this friendship with Gina and in a fit of passion he grabbed the woman by the throat and held her tightly as she struggled for breath.
The terrorized woman managed to escape and ran from the caravan fearing for her life.
A doctor’s look into listing her injuries was presented to the court last week and the damning token was accepted by the judge.
After the violent incident at the Castlerock caravan orientation, Branter became more open about the true nature of his relationship with his tony hooker girlfriend.
‘Gina’ quit work as an escort and moved to a delight apartment complex at Mussenden.
Despite professing his undying love for the Polish loveliness, Branter still had an eye for other women and on one occasion he went missing for three light of days.
However, he was stunned into racing back to ‘Gina’ when he located she had put her profile back up on the Escort Ireland website.
‘Gina’s’ profile on Protection Ireland sex for sale website
Branter entered not guilty pleas to all three entrusts but was convicted and will be sentenced at Coleraine Magistrates Court on February 20 consummate pre-sentencing reports.
Grazyna Makowsica
On Friday the Sunday World confronted Branter at his commerce premises in the New Buildings Industrial Estate. Branter runs a yard that specialises in into working ordering propellers for boats as well as alloy wheels for cars. But the propeller man was sent into a relate when we asked about his court appearance and subsequent conviction.
We deficiency to ask the bully boy if he wanted to talk about assaulting and threatening to kill his helpmeet.
We also wanted to ask about falling in love with an escort Freulein.
“I don’t want to comment on that,” he said before retreating in to his office.
No one riposted when we called at Gina’s home in the luxury Temple Cove Apartments hairbreadth Castlerock.
By Steven Moore and Hugh Jordan