A rapist was jailed today after a court was earlier shown photos of injuries to his victim taken by the woman herself after the sex attack.
The woman said she took the pictures on her mobile phone after she was assaulted by Kristopher Mayo at a house in Ellon, in Aberdeenshire.
The 33-year-old told the High Court in Edinburgh that she sent the photos to a relative in a plea for help.
She said that bruising was starting to appear on her chest and told advocate depute Mark Mcguire it had been caused by Mayo restraining her.
She said: “He just pushed down. It was like a dead weight on my chest. It was hard to breath.”
The woman also took pictures of a hand injury and said: “I had cut myself. I wasn’t sure what I had cut myself on. Again I wanted to document what had happened.”
She added that blood on her hand had come from a split lip she sustained when her face was shoved into a bed.
Mayo (31) of Station Road, Ellon, had denied assaulting and raping the woman on February 15 last year at a house in the town.
But a jury at the High Court in Edinburgh convicted him on a majority verdict of the sex crime.
During the assault he pushed her onto a bed, forced her head into a duvet, restricting her ability to breathe, struggled with her and pinned her to the bed.
Following the verdict defence counsel Michael Anderson told the judge that there was no application to be made for bail to be granted for the first offender.
Lady Scott remanded Mayo in custody ahead of sentencing later this month and called for a background report on him. She placed him on the sex offenders’ register.
The woman told the court that she had not wanted to “engage in any sexual contact of any description” at the time of the incident.
She said that Mayo got angry after she started to get loud and shouted “no.”
She said he flipped her over on a bed and pushed her faced into the duvet and mattress.
She said that as turned over she was pinned down across her chest. “I asked him to please stop. He was hurting me,” she said, adding: “He kept telling me to shut up.”
The woman told the court: “I just shut myself off. I didn’t want to be in that room. I was afraid for my own life.”
She said that following the assault she had cried.
She said she had taken the photographs in the morning after the sex attack when there was better light.