A rapist who was snared after his victim sent pictures of her injuries to a relative has been jailed for five years.
The woman took the photos using her mobile phone after Kristopher Mayo attacked her at a house in Aberdeenshire.
She sent them to a relative in a plea for help.
During Mayo’s trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, she said bruising on her chest had been caused by him restraining her.
And she said blood on her hand had come from a split lip she suffered when Mayo shoved her face into a bed.
He denied repeatedly raping the woman – who is in her early 30s – at a house in Ellon on February 15 last year but was found guilty by a jury on a majority verdict.
Mayo appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh for sentence yesterday.
Judge Lady Scott told him: £This was a lengthy ordeal for your frightened victim.”
She said she took into account that 31-year-old Mayo, formerly of Station Road, Ellon, was a first offender and not considered high risk.
During the assault Mayo pushed his victim on to a bed, forced her head into a duvet, restricted her ability to breathe, struggled with her, pinned her to a bed and molested her.
The woman told the court she had not wanted to “engage in any sexual contact of any description” at the time of the incident.
She said that Mayo, who could be “Jekyll and Hyde”, got angry after she started to get loud and shouted “No”.
She said he turned her over on a bed and pushed her faced into the duvet and mattress.
She said that as she was turned over she was pinned down across her chest.
She told the court: “I asked him to please stop. He was hurting me. He kept telling me to shut up.”
She said she took photographs the morning after the sex attack when there was better light.
Mayo’s counsel, advocate Michael Anderson, said: “I recognise, as does the accused, that a sentence of imprisonment is inevitable for the offence of which he was convicted.
“He will during the sentence of imprisonment take all the opportunities available to him to better himself.”
Mayo was placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
