Sadistic policeman who was recorded raping a woman on her iPhone’s sleeper app is jailed for 16 years
The officer was branded a 'monster' and after he tied up, slapped and choked his victim
A VILE police officer who was recorded repeatedly raping a woman after she installed a sleep app in her iPhone was branded a 'monster' as he was jailed for 16 years today.
PC Michael Graham, 49, tied the victim up, slapped her and choked her during a barrage of sexual abuse on his houseboat in Uxbridge, west London.
The Metropolitan Police officer was also recorded boasting that he would end up killing the woman as he called her a 'slut' and a 'c***'.
Jurors heard the sound recordings of his two attacks in court during the trial at the Old Bailey.
Graham, a former marine who saw action in Yugoslavia, insisted that he repeated shouts of 'No!' were just part of their sexual role-playing fantasies.
The jury, however, was not convinced and Graham was convicted of seven counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.
He was cleared of two specimen counts of rape which each claimed he raped the complainant on at least 10 occasions.
Jailing Graham for 16 years, Judge Peter Rook said: "In my view this was a series of brutal rapes, these offences were committed against a woman who from the time of the first rape on Christmas Eve was terrified of you.
"You threatened her all the time, on occasions telling her that you would kill her.
";You were domineering and controlling, it seems you obtained sexual gratification from arguing with her, punishing her and committing violent non-consensual sexual acts against her.
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"It took extreme courage to report the matter to the police, no doubt you thought that you would be able to control her so that she would never do so.
"She felt you could do what you wanted because no one would ever believe her - you've caused untold and continuing psychological damage.
"She remains highly traumatised and finds it difficult to socialise.' He was also barred from contacting the victim on his eventual release."
Graham abused the victim over a nine month period from 24 December 2013.
Jurors were told that Graham became increasingly violent and aggressive after giving up cigarettes and using the drug Champix.
The victim said she did not initially go to police because he told her: 'I'm a police officer, I can do what I want, I'll tell people you are mad.'
She said she finally decided to make a statement but in September 2014 after he made repeated threats to kill her.
The woman told officers: "I would just say "No I don't like it. I don't want you to hurt me."
"But he just did it anyway. He made threats if I didn't do it. I was absolutely terrified of him.
"I knew I had to leave because he is going to kill me next."
The victim started using the iPhone sleep app to record Graham's increasingly aggressive rants and captured two separate sex attacks.
In the harrowing sound clips Graham, who served in the borough of Hounslow, can be clearly heard slapping her as she cries out in pain and repeatedly tells him 'no'.
When she tells him: "Don't hurt me", he replies: "I like hurting you.'' Later he says: "I am going to beat you to death in a minute I can see it coming."
Graham tells her: "I'm going to kill you one day, do you think?"
Prosecutor Eloise Marshall said Graham "repeatedly crossed the line from rough sex into rape."
She added: "He knew she wasn't consenting, he knew she didn't want him to do those things but he carried on regardless - using her fear and her submission for his own ends."
Graham had been suspended from the police but will now be formally dismissed before he is put behind bars.