A FORMER Bournemouth University student is facing prison after today being convicted of raping a prostitute in a graveyard.

Emmanuel Mutandi, of Walnut Walk, Kempston in Bedfordshire, had originally agreed to pay his victim £40 for full sexual intercourse.

However, after the pair walked from Southcote Road to St Clement’s Church in Boscombe in the early hours of Saturday, August 2, the 22-year-old said he only had a £20 note.

The woman performed a sex act on him, but as she attempted to leave afterwards, he “grabbed” her and told her he wanted full sex, viciously battering her after the rape.

She suffered injuries including bruising and damage to her teeth in the assault, which Zimbabwean Mutandi admitted at an earlier hearing before a judge.

He had denied raping the woman, but was unanimously found guilty at the conclusion of a three-day trial at Bournemouth Crown Court.

The not guilty plea forced the woman to relive her ordeal during the trial.

She told jurors she had begged him to “kill her quickly”, and later told police officers during an interview: “He was punching me.

“I was saying, ‘Please don’t’. I was taking punches to my face. I thought, ‘He’s going to kill me’.”

Mutandi, who has been living in the UK since he was nine, told the court he had been accused of rape as “pay-back” for him beating her after they had sex in the graveyard.

He alleged that he’d had consensual sex with the woman after she approached him looking for business, later punching her in the face several times and demanding his money back.

He will be sentenced at the court on February 27.