A man who left a woman in fear for her life after raping her has been jailed.

Ozbeg Teymuroglu, 23, denied rape but was found guilty by a jury at Southampton Crown Court.

He was stony faced while he was handed a prison sentence of six years and three months for the attack in East Park in June.

In a victim impact statement read out in court by prosecutor Christopher Wing, the woman described suffering from suicidal thoughts following the ordeal.

She said: "My mind wanders back to the incident and I have lost all motivation to do anything.

"Everything is too much to cope with at the moment and I want my old life back.

"My life was stolen from me.

"My support system is the only thing keeping me from ending my life."

She added: "I feel like a prisoner in my own home, and I have to be chaperoned everywhere - even when I go to the shops.

"My anxiety is through the roof and I am not sleeping. I suffer from flashbacks and I see the same thing over and over.

"I try to avoid the area where it happened as much as I can."

Passing sentence, Recorder Barry McElduff said Teymuroglu "exploited" his victim to lead her to the park.

He said: "You targeted an intoxicated woman when she was isolated.

"You tricked her to come with you and she only realised what was happening when it was too late to stop you."

Teymuroglu was found guilty following a four day trial.

Mitigating, Helen Easterbrook said Teymuroglu fled to the UK last year after being tortured and beaten in his home country of Turkey.

He now faces automatic deportation, she said, adding: "He has destroyed his own life as well."

Recorder McElduff agreed, and said he also "irrevocably damaged the victim".

The court previously heard how he led the victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to the park in the early hours in June morning.

Mr Wing previously told jurors how Teymuroglu pulled the woman into the bushes and tried to kiss her, despite her protests.

In a recorded police interview showed to the court, the woman tearfully described how her underwear was “forced down” and she was “fearful for my life”.

“I did not know what to do and I felt helpless”, she added.

Teymuroglu, of no fixed address, told police the sex was consensual but this was rejected by the jury.