A chef convicted of the horrific rape of a drunken teenage girl who he picked up in his car late at night has been jailed for nine years.

A judge described it as every woman’s worst nightmare.

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 and violence.

Defendant Jie Xiang Guan, aged 39, a father of six, 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 in February.

The Judge, Mr Recorder Wyn Lloyd Jones, ordered him to register with the police as a sex offender for life.

In a victim impact statement, read by prosecuting barrister Elen Owen, the young woman said she suffered nightmares and flashbacks after the attack, she had missed lectures in university and there was an obvious concern it would affect her grades.

When she started going out again she did not enjoy herself, was scared to drink and kept in touch with her mother.

She now always carried a personal attack alarm when out which was something she felt “stupid about” and added “why should I have to carry an alarm?”

It had taken her a year or so to be able to get into a taxi alone and when she did so was terrified.

She said it was always in the back of her mind and when out was worried about becoming separated.

The victim also revealed that as a result of the attack she had to suffer the indignity of attending a sexual health clinic for blood tests and injections.

Defending barrister Mark LeBroq said that his client, who had no previous convictions, had a wife and six children and it was clear that those completely innocent people would suffer as a result of his inevitable imprisonment.

He said it was an isolated, impulsive offence, there was little planning and he was a low risk of committing a similar offences. He was not a dangerous offender who required an extensive sentence, he said.

The judge Mr Recorder Wyn Lloyd Jones said that all the victim had done was to go out and enjoy herself on Halloween which she was entitled to do.

In a nightclub she had a great deal to drink, was asked to leave, shared a taxi with a young man she knew but because she was sick the driver was not prepared to take her any further and left her at the side of the road.

The victim was still drunk and very vulnerable, Guan had seen her in the club and as he drove home he saw her and stopped in his people carrier.

“What happened thereafter is every woman’s worst nightmare,” he said.

He stopped and put her in the back of the car, she thought it was a taxi and that her male friend was with her and she was taken by the defendant to be sexually abused for his own selfish gratification.

“Alone and highly vulnerable she had no means of escape or to protect herself,” the Recorder said.

He stopped the car in a quiet location , went to the back, put her to the floor and straddled her.

The attacker pulled down his and her lower clothes, pulled up her bra and top and repeatedly squeezed her breasts and tried to kiss her before he raped her.

He was not wearing a condom.