A predator who pretended to be a Good Samaritan before raping a heavily intoxicated woman in the back of his car has been jailed for 10 years.

Lukas Piatek had driven the young woman home, along with her mother, following her collapse through drink and illness outside a nightclub.

But when they arrived the mother got out to let her daughter out of her side of the car - and was horrified to see 33-year-old Piatek reverse at speed and drive off.

Polish-born Piatek then parked and raped the “sleeping and insensible” woman in the car.

The woman, 20, said in evidence at Maidstone Crown Court she had no memory of having sex that night.

Piatek, who lived in a flat above the former Shozna Indian restaurant in Strood High Street, denied rape and kidnap, but was convicted.

The jobless builder, who appeared with an interpreter, wept on the video link with Elmley Prison today as he was jailed for 10 years.

Judge Adele Williams told him: “You are, in my judgement, an arrogant and selfish young man. On this occasion you opportunistically decided to take advantage of a young girl who was very drunk and very vulnerable.”

The university undergraduate student, then 19, had been out with her parents and other family members in February 2015.

They went for a meal and visited bars. The victim drank vodka, cocktails and shots.

The parents had a row and her father went home. The woman and her mother went on to the Casino Rooms in Rochester and continued to drink.

After they left in the early hours they went outside to get a taxi. There, the woman collapsed.

People gathered around and Piatek stepped forward to arrange for a friend to drive them.

When they arrived at a car park at the rear of Shozna he went into his flat to get his car keys to drive the women home.

On arrival, the mother got out and Piatek drove off with the daughter slumped in the back of the car.

The mother watched in shock before alerting her husband and calling 999.

The daughter could only recall being in the back of a car squashed up against a window. She thought Piatek kissed her.

“In her own words, she was out of it because she was drunk,” said prosecutor Paul Valder.

“Her next recollection is being in the back of a police car speaking to an officer and paramedic.”

Police carried out a search and at 6am went to the car park at the rear of the restaurant. Officers saw Piatek and the woman walking towards them.

Asked if she was okay, she replied: “I don’t know.” She gave the same reply when asked what she had happened in the car.

Piatek protested he had done nothing wrong. He claimed the woman had told him to drive off after her mother got out of the car.

He said the woman suggested they went to his flat but she wanted to stay in the car. He said she willingly performed a sex act on him.

Piatek claimed the woman asked him to have intercourse with her and he did so. He did not use a condom. He described her as “a sexaholic”.

He added that footprints would be found on the ceiling of the car because she kept her shoes on. He denied she was “staggering around drunk”.

Tests showed the victim was more than twice the legal limit for driving.

"In her own words, she was out of it because she was drunk. Her next recollection is being in the back of a police car speaking to an officer and paramedic" - Prosecutor Paul Vadler

Piatek was said to have been cautioned in 2006 for soliciting a prostitute in a car and a conviction in Poland for “extortion, duress, pressure, towards a representative of public authority”.

He was sentenced to eight months imprisonment suspended for three years.

Judge Williams said Piatek had been convicted on “clear and compelling evidence“.

“She was a stranger to you before the events of the night in question,” said the judge. “She was badly affected by alcohol.

“It is plain you targeted her as a vulnerable young woman. She was asleep and completely insensible in the back of the car.

“Before her mother could get to her side of the car you reversed at speed and drove away with a sleeping woman in the back.

“You returned to the car park in Strood where you then raped her.”

The judge added: “You have caused her immense harm and psychological trauma. She has self-harmed and found it difficult to go out alone.

“You did this by your own selfish and callous actions. You have shown no remorse or insight into your crimes.”

Piatek’s name will appear indefinitely on the sex offenders’ register.