Bus driver guilty of seaside rape

Vann claimed the couple had consensual sex

A bus driver who forced a woman to read the Bible before raping her has been warned he is facing jail.

Cardiff Crown Court heard vicar's son Nicholas Vann, 37, made the woman read from the Old Testament before forcing her to submit to his sexual demands.

The trial heard he chatted up a passenger, 22, and later took her away to a seaside bed and breakfast.

Vann, from Machen, south Wales, had denied rape and assault but was found guilty. He was bailed for sentence.

Prosecutor Ieuan Morris said: "The pair went out for a meal but the evening soon turned sour. He forced himself upon her when they got back to the bed and breakfast.

"He grabbed her head, bent her over the bed and shouted: 'Read the Bible'. He had book-marked a page about women having to be submissive to men.

"He then forced the her to have sex with him. He was forceful and perverted."

The woman told Cardiff Crown Court how the weekend turned into a nightmare when he demanded perverted sex.

Bail

She said: "I tried to push him back to get him off me - but he was getting really excited by the challenge."

Vann, a father-of-four, is currently living at his parents' home.

He denied rape and causing actual bodily harm but was found guilty by a jury.

Vann had insisted the pair enjoyed consensual sex.

He told the trial: "I did nothing of the sort. I never forced myself on her.

"We did have sex but I never forced myself on her - I never made her do anything against her will."

Vann will be sentenced later this month and Judge Stephen Hopkins warned him: "Foremost in my mind is a custodial sentence."