A man has been jailed for 13 years for raping a 16-year-old girlth birthday.
Prince Irving, 28, attended a party two years ago in a rented apartment in Cardiff, where the teenager darkened after her drink was added to cocaine.
She woke up and found herself in a bedroom where another man raped her, and Irving then raped her herself.
Judge Daniel Williams at Newport Crown Court told him: ‘She screamed in pain when you raped her and she asked you to stop but you would not. Your answer was a terrible boast that she could not handle you. ‘
In a statement on the consequences for victims read out yesterday by prosecutor Matthew Cobbe, the girl said the rape had limited her ability to live a normal life.
She said: ‘I went out to celebrate my birthday and ended up in the middle of a nightmare. Every year I celebrate my birthday, it will be the anniversary of my attack.
‘I have a little more social life and my self-confidence is very low. I feel too eager to go out at night and I am reluctant to leave the security of the house.
‘Sometimes I feel like the memory of the attack is fading a bit, but something will trigger a flashback and I’m back to the first one.
‘The incident has left me extremely wary of men and I am not even considering forming a relationship. It will take a while before I regain that confidence.
‘It hurts me to see the effect on my family – it has caused stress and anguish for all the members for whom I irrationally feel responsible.’
The girl also said her GCSE exams were affected and did not think her results reflected her potential.
Irving, from Harrow in London, denied rape and initially claimed he had never been to Cardiff, but he was found guilty after a trial.
The court heard he became a father for the second time, but he missed the birth when he was detained.
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