A MAN was today found guilty of raping a 15-year-old girl at knifepoint on school playing fields in Dorchester.

Adrian Cordery attacked the teenager as she walked back from her part-time job at night.

The 32-year-old, of Dorchester, had originally admitted rape, but changed his plea to not guilty, leading to a trial at Bournemouth Crown Court.

But today a jury unanimously found him guilty of the charge, along with another of threatening with a knife relating to the attack in fields on Barnes Way on December 5 last year.

Cordery has been registered on the sex offenders register. He will be sentenced on November 3.

During the trial, the jury was played a pre-recorded interview given to officers by the schoolgirl on the day after she was raped, in which she told how she thought she was going to die.

The girl said: “I was texting and listening to music when the next thing I knew the man had his hands on my arms. He said, ‘don’t move, be quiet, I’ve got a knife, if you do what I say I won’t hurt you'.

“I was confused, really confused, when he first put his hands on me. I thought it was one of my friends trying to scare me. I realised that it was not anything like that.

“I was really scared, I was trying to think about everything I have been told in my life about what to do in that situation.

“He dragged me from the path onto the field. I kept trying to get away, I tried to snap my head back to hit him on the nose and I kept kicking back. He pulled the knife up to my throat.

“I was doing everything I could to get him off me. He threw me to the ground. He got on top of me. He kept trying to get my clothes off but I was wearing a jumpsuit so he grabbed the knife and slit my clothes. He was clawing at it. He took the knife and just slashed. He cut through my tights, he cut through my underwear and he ripped them.”

In her police interview, the victim said the attacker put her jacket over her head to prevent her seeing his face.

She added: “I couldn’t breathe, he kept pushing it closer and closer he was strangling me. I was crying and getting panicked, I was making a lot of noise

“I was saying ‘get off me, why are you doing this, go away, please stop’.

“He then raped me, holding my head down to the ground and I just knew I wasn’t going to get out. I just had to wait for him to finish.

“He used a lot of force. It hurt a lot, it was very uncomfortable and he was being very rough. I felt vulnerable and scared. I thought he was going to kill me.

“I felt worthless and vulnerable and completely and utterly violated. I was extremely embarrassed. I grabbed my stuff and just ran as fast as I could back home.”