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Steven McKenna targeted his victim after she was seen struggling to stand up and attacked her in an isolated harbour area in Bridlington, East Yorkshire
A man who raped and sexually assaulted a woman after following her out of a nightclub later spat at her twice when she called the police, a court heard.
Steven McKenna had also licked her legs as she tried to make the emergency call in the "additional degradation" he levelled at her.
When officers arrived, McKenna had gone but the woman was crying and they noticed she had frothy spittle in her hair, the Hull Daily Mail reported.
McKenna, 32, of no fixed address, denied any wrongdoing and claimed any sexual activity was consensual. He showed no emotion when a Hull Crown Court jury convicted him of rape and sexual assault, but not guilty of two other sexual offences.
Parts of the incident in Bridlington in the early hours last summer were caught on CCTV, and showed the woman at times struggling to stand up, and at others appearing to be "semi-conscious".
McKenna followed the woman after meeting her in the Apollo nightclub and attacked her on the harbour side. She was two-and-a-half times over the legal alcohol limit for driving.
Sentencing McKenna on Friday, Recorder Abdul Iqbal QC told him: "These were shameless and cruel offences against a vulnerable victim, on her own in an isolated location for your sexual gratification."
He said the victim had suffered "substantial" psychological trauma, and the spitting and verbal abuse after the sexual offences amounted to "additional degradation".
Following McKenna's convictions, Charlotte Baines, prosecuting, read a victim statement on the woman's behalf. She said: "Every day I wake up and I'm nervous about going out of the house. I don't go out as much at all now. I always double-check the doors are locked."
The court heard the woman had been unable to sleep in her own bed for three weeks after the attack, had lost her job because she did not feel well enough to attend work and did not want to inform her employers about what had happened, while her partner and family had also been badly affected.
She said she now felt scared to answer the door, and said: "I feel this assault has changed me as a person."
McKenna had 60 previous offences on his record, including an indecent assault on a female under 14 when he was a youth.
He was jailed for nine years and ordered to sign the sex offenders register indefinitely.