A NEWPORT teenage rapist was told by a judge yesterday there was “no excuse or justification" for his actions and he was as an individual who "gives nothing to society".

Khaliq Hussain, who raped a woman in a schoolyard, was locked up for seven years.

Ordering Hussain to serve seven years in a young offenders institute, Recorder Patrick Harrington described the circumstances of the attack as "utterly appalling".

Hussain, who was 17 at the time of the incident, was found guilty of two counts of rape following a trial at Cardiff Crown Court earlier this year.

During the trial, the court heard how Hussain attacked his victim, who was in her 20s, in the early hours of Saturday January 30 after they had both been at the Fire and Ice nightclub on Bridge Street in Newport.

Hussain told the jury that he had drank half a bottle of whisky at home, before consuming 15 alcoholic drinks inside Fire and Ice after paying £10 for an all-you-can-drink promotion.

Outside the club Hussain began talking to the woman, who he did not know, and offered to help her find a taxi home.

Hussain led the woman to a schoolyard where he grabbed her, shouting "shut up or I'll kill you" and raped her twice in an hour-long attack.

Defending Hussain, Mary Parry-Evans highlighted the defendant's young age and the fact that both Hussain and the woman had been drinking.

DCI Ian Roberts, from Gwent Police praised the victim's bravery in coming forward and hoped the case would serve as a warning to young men and women to drink alcohol responsibly to avoid putting themselves in vulnerable and dangerous situations.