Victim beaten and raped in horrifying nine-hour ordeal

Carin told how Stephen Graham, 29, first turned violent in September last year when he grabbed her by the throat and threw her across the living room as she was getting ready for college.

She eventually managed to escape before calling the police who arrested him.

Despite being remanded in custody, his hold over his victim was still strong and Carin went to visit him in prison where he begged her for forgiveness.

She said: “He said he’d never hurt me again and he’d make it up to me. He was crying like a baby.

“I just kept remembering all the little love and affection he had shown me before.

“I still loved him which sounds daft now.”

Graham’s abuse continued from behind bars and Carin was bombarded with abusive voicemails and phone calls.

When he was released in December, the couple reunited briefly before Graham’s violence streak re-emerged just days later and they split.

In February, Carin had enjoyed a night out with friends before she was attacked outside her Markinch flat and woke up, dazed and confused on the couch in Graham’s living room.

He then subjected her to a horrendous nine-hour ordeal where he kept her trapped, threatened her with a knife and beat her repeatedly before raping her.

She said: “I knew if he caught me trying to escape, he’d kill me. I could hear my heart beating. I don’t even remember shutting the door, I think I was in shock.”

Carin eventually managed to make it to her gran’s house before an ambulance and the police were called.

Graham was found guilty of assaulting and raping Carin following a trial at Livingston High Court and is due to be sentenced tomorrow.

He was also convicted of two counts of threatening and abusive behaviour towards police officers at his flat and at Levenmouth police station in September last year.

His name was added to the sex offenders register and details of his conviction were passed to Scottish ministers under protection of vulnerable groups legislation.