A chef and father of six has been warned that he faces a very long prison sentence after he was convicted of the horrific rape of a drunken teenage girl who he picked up in his car late at night.

The victim aged 19 was wearing Halloween face paint following a night out when she got separated from her friends.

She got into the vehicle believing it to be a taxi.

But she was driven to an isolated spot at Rhos-on-Sea where she was subjected to a degrading sexual assault by the defendant, a complete stranger, which culminated in rape.

Defendant Jie Xiang Guan, aged 39, of Heol Dirion in Colwyn Bay, admitted a sex assault upon her but denied raping her in the back of his vehicle in October 2016.

But a jury of nine women and three men found him unanimously guilty at Mold Crown Court.

The Judge, Mr Recorder Wyn Lloyd Jones, remanded Guan in custody pending sentence in March and ordered a pre-sentence report.

That, he said, would assess his future dangerousness and would also help him determine the length of the sentence he would receive.

“You are looking at a very long prison sentence,” he warned the defendant.

He also asked for a victim impact statement from the young woman involved.

Prosecuting barrister Elen Owen said that the complainant had been celebrating Halloween at a Llandudno nightclub in October, 2016, but she had some to drink, was sick, had to leave and she became separated from her friends at about 2am.

She saw another friend and asked to share a taxi home with him but she was ill during the journey and they were thrown out in the Craigside area of Llandudno.

The friend left her and she got into a vehicle which stopped.

But it was not a taxi, the defendant turned off the prom in Rhos on Sea and went onto an embankment where she was raped, Miss Owen said.

Her clothing was damaged and she was punched and his hands were put around her mouth to stop her screaming before she was kicked out and pushed down an embankment.

The victim’s handbag was later found in his vehicle, which was spotted by an eagle eyed police officer who realised it was a similar vehicle to the one police had issued an appeal for following the rape attack.

The defendant, giving evidence with the aid of a Cantonese interpreter, said he did not have good English but she seemed to know his vehicle was not a taxi.

He admitted touching her breasts and said he might have “misunderstood something”.

“I thought she agreed to get into my car and that we could take it further, like boyfriend, girlfriend,” he told the jury.

It was a misunderstanding on his part when he touched and squeezed her breast, while she was on the seat, Guan claimed.

He touched her over the clothes, then put his hand in and touched her “down below”.

She fell to the floor at that stage, he said.

He did not pull her jeans down at any stage, he said, or try to do that.

The defendant denied taking his own jeans down or exposing himself.

“After touching her a few times, I just realised I was doing wrong. Then I helped her get out of the car and I sat her down on the grass,” he claimed.

“Then I got back into my car and drove off.”

Guan denied that he had punched her at any time or put his hands to her neck or throat.

He also denied that he had pushed or kicked her down the embankment.