A WORCESTER teenager was raped by a Latvian man who she met in a city nightclub.

Judge Toby Hooper said Arturs Polis had subjected the girl to degrading sexual violence in her own home.

He sentenced Polis, aged 23, of Gerrard Close, Warndon, and formerly of Cherwell Close,Tolladine, to six-and-a-half years’ jail. He ordered him to sign on the sex offenders register for life.

His 19-year-old victim and a girlfriend met Polis and another Latvian at Tramps on April 17 last year. They left at 3am and took the two men back to the girl’s flat, where they continued to drink vodka.

When he sat on her bed, the girl texted a friend in the hope that Polis would leave. When he said he wanted the toilet, she took him downstairs but he grabbed her and locked the bathroom. He forced her to have oral sex before ripping off her nightclothes and having sex on the floor. He did not use a contraceptive.

Her screams were heard by a neighbour, said Stephen Davies, prosecuting at Worcester Crown Court. Polis tried to quieten her by putting his hand over her mouth and tried to choke her by putting his fingers down her throat. She managed to bite him and he eventually let her out when her friend came knocking on the door.

Mr Davies said her ordeal lasted for about 20 minutes and she was left sobbing, scratched and bruised. Polis left the flat after being threatened with a saucepan and was arrested the next day. He first claimed that sex had been consensual but later admitted the rape charge.

Abigail Nixon, defending, said the guilty plea meant that the girl did not have to relive her ordeal in court. Polis had no previous convictions and had been shocked by his behaviour, fuelled by an extensive intake of alcohol.

He was so drunk that police were unable to rouse him when they found him in bed the next day. He showed genuine remorse.

The judge said Polis had caused his victim to suffer real fear and she still experienced anxiety and distress. He deserved credit for his guilty plea and would have 381 days deducted from his sentence because of the time he had spent in custody.