The court heard that bouncers told the victim, 24, to leave Cafe Parfait for being drunk.

As she attempted to contact her girlfriend, Hotak, who was 22 at the time, began following her and paying her unwanted attention.

He told the victim he knew her partner, and offered to help reunite them, but instead led her to his own address.

In a voicemail sent from her phone, she could be heard telling him to stop.

The court was told that the next thing the victim remembered was waking up in Hotak’s home with him lying on top of her.

After she escaped, she contacted police and a swab taken from her was matched to the defendant’s DNA.

Reading her personal impact statement to the court, the victim said the attack had “left scars in every part of [her] life” which had led her to self-harm and an attempt to take her own life.

She said: “What happened to me destroyed my life in ways I never thought possible. I didn’t just feel violated, I felt erased.

“Since that day I have lived in fear, shame, silence and unbearable pain that I can’t fully describe.

“I was left feeling broken and empty and terrified of the world around me.”

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that Hotak, who was captured on CCTV on the night, originally claimed he was not the man seen in the footage and tried to blame members of his family, but investigators ruled out everyone else he named.

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