A MAN who photographed his unconscious victim after he had raped her in a Hayes park was convicted on Monday (8).

Thomas Mangar, 36, of Bourne Avenue, was found guilty of rape and sexual assault following a four-day trial at Isleworth Crown Court. He will be sentenced in April.

The victim, a woman in her late 20s, had met up with two friends in the evening of May 11 last year. She remembers intending to go home but was later unable to recall how she came to be in Hitherbroom Park.

At around 2.45pm the following day, the victim awoke in a daze on the grass to find a man raping her. She began screaming, which alerted someone nearby.

A male witness heard the victim’s screams and saw her push and hit her attacker.

He said he chased and caught up with the attacker, who told him he was trying to help the victim, believing she was having a heart attack. Both men parted company in Avondale Drive.

Four days later, the witness again spotted Mangar in the vicinity and called police, who arrested him.

They heard how photographic evidence was found on Mangar's phone, it included selfies taken by him with his thumbs up and of the victim lying down, exposed and in an unconscious state.

Det Con Alan Wong said: “Mangar carried out an audacious attack on a vulnerable female in broad daylight whilst she was unconscious, with no capacity to consent or defend herself.

"The victim has shown tremendous strength and courage to engage with the police.”