John Ashby is a man who did not hide his hatred of women. In fact, the rapist, who was sentenced this week to life in prison with a minimum of 14 years for a racially motivated sex attack on a Sikh woman, vented his misogyny online for all to see. Publicly available videos uploaded to YouTube show Ashby, 32, rapping about hitting women. “I’d fight any bitch, don’t give a fuck. You cheeky bitch want to get slapped up, what?” he says. “Think I don’t hit girls, oh please, you’re a bitch and you’re getting slapped down.” Inevitably, perhaps, Ashby’s inventory of hate-filled uploads includes clips of him listening to manosphere-adjacent motivational messages, including from the controversial influencer Andrew Tate. Ashby’s attack took place in October last year. This week, a trial heard how he had barged into the home of the victim – a woman in her 20s he mistakenly believed was Muslim – before raping her while subjecting her to racist and misogynistic abuse.…