The victim of a rapist cop spoke of the “ongoing nightmare” she has lived through as he was jailed for 16 years.
Michael Graham, 49, an officer in the Metropolitan Police, used his job as a “weapon” to repeatedly rape the woman.
He carried out the attacks between December 2013 and September 2014, and told his victim “I am a police officer, I can do what I want”.
Graham, of Poole, Dorset, was recorded raping the woman on an iPhone app designed to tell you if you snore.
At his sentencing at the Old Bailey today his victim spoke behind a screen telling Graham the mental scars she still has to endure.
She said: “You will never understand the courage it took me to report you to the police and to speak in interviews about the abuse I endured regularly at your hands.
“I have felt completely ashamed and humiliated throughout this whole experience.
“You were a serving police officer, paid to protect the public. Yet you used this as a weapon in your power.
“You repeatedly told me as a police officer you could do as you liked.
“You threatened to kill me and dispose of the evidence. You told me all of this so many times I believed it.
“This abuse of power left me terrified of you.”
She added: “This was an ongoing nightmare.
“I lived in constant fear. I felt unsafe as I believed you were coming to kill me. You behaved like a monster.
“The ongoing mental and physical pain I have lived through every day cannot be explained.
“The mental scars I still carry, the flashbacks, and the sleepless nights still remain.
“As grateful as I am that the truth has won, I will not walk free from this.”
Graham, who joined the Met in 2005 and formerly served as a marine engineer, was found guilty yesterday (THURS) of seven counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, relating to strangling the victim.
Passing sentence, Judge Peter Rook QC said he had caused the victim “extreme pain and humiliation”.
He said: “These are very grave offences.
“This was a series of brutal rapes. You threatened her all the time, occasionally telling her that you would kill her.
“She has described her feelings of humiliation and shame.”
He said she showed “extraordinary courage” to report him to the police.
He added: “You told her because you were a police officer, you could do what you want, no one would believe her.
“You have caused her untold and continuing psychological damage. She remains highly traumatised.”
In mitigation Alisdair Williamson, defending, said Graham has been suspended from the police since his arrest last October and will now be fired.
He said: “To a man who took such obvious pride in uniformed service in this country, these are great blows.
“They weigh heavily on a man such as he is.”
Giving evidence behind a screen during the trial, his victim said: “I didn’t think anyone would believe me, because he told me that no one would believe me.
“And he told me, ‘I am a police officer, I can do what I want.'”
The woman added: “He used it as punishment.
“I said, ‘No, I don’t want to.’ And he said he is a lot bigger than me. He can just put his body weight on me. He can just force himself on me.”
Graham was given 16 years for each count of rape, and seven years for the sexual assault count, with each count to run concurrently.
He will also be put on the sexual offenders’ register for life.
