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A PhD student has been jailed for nine years for raping a woman he met on a night out - while taking multiple photos of her during the attack. 

Dayan Garcia, 31, took photographs on his mobile phone of the victim giving him oral sex after he had hit her around the face so violently that she went deaf in one ear for a week.

A court heard that the victim had found herself separated from her friends whilst out, and met Garcia in Mambo nightclub in Plymouth, Devon, on Friday, April 29 and agreed to go back to his address at around 2am. 

Back at his home, Garcia hit the victim's head twice after she resisted his advances he went on to rape her.

During a trial at Plymouth Crown Court, the jury heard how the victim suffered extensive bruising and facial injuries and feared for her life.

It also came to light that Garcia had taken multiple photos of the victim during the attack, without her knowledge.

The victim managed to flee the scene with Garcia's phone, and fast tracked enquiries led to his identification and arrest on the evening of April 30 2022.

At his trial, the jury were shown sanitised versions of three of the ten pictures he took of this on his mobile phone during her ordeal.

Garcia was quickly remanded the next day for two counts of rape and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH).

Prior to his trial, which began on September 27, Garcia changed his plea to guilty to the ABH offence, but not guilty to the two counts of rape.