A minicab driver who dragged a teenager into the woods and threatened to kill her before raping her has been convicted.

Masood Ahmed, 26, from Seaforth Avenue, Raynes Park, approached the 18-year-old girl from behind as she walked from a friend’s house in Byfleet, toward Weybridge, early on August 13, last year.

The traumatic sexual assault left her with 62 injuries and the jury at Guildford Crown Court saw through Ahmed’s defence that she had initiated the sex.

The defence claimed to the court on July 25 that the victim, who had been on a night out in Woking, flirtatiously suggested she could pay her fare “in other ways”.

Defending, Julia Dick said: “We know that [the victim] had had a night of quite heavy drinking.

“We know she felt emotionally overwrought and we know from our own experiences, from our own common knowledge, that drink can be very disinhibiting.

“Then she kisses him, and then she kisses him again.

“Of course, it may be that in the clear light of day you look back on it and think ‘how could I have done such a thing?’, but that’s the world of some sexual encounters.”

But the prosecution dismissed this as a pack of lies and said it was a predatory and unwarranted sexual attack, driven by violence from beginning to end.

They claimed Ahmed approached her from behind, tried to take her phone from her, then dragged her into a wooded area, where he subjected her to the ordeal, using a knife to threaten her.

Judge Peter Moss told the court the victim said: “He pinned me down and made me take off my tights. He said he would have sex with me. He said he would call his friends and they would all have sex with me.”

She said Ahmed repeatedly said he had a knife, to which she replied: “If you kill me, you are going to hell, so ******* try it.”

At the end of her ordeal, he forced her to urinate in front of him and make her way out of the woods in the opposite direction.

On Tuesday, July 26, he was found guilty of two counts of rape, one count of assault by penetration and making threats to kill.

He is due to be sentenced on August 22. Detective Sergeant Simon Corke, of Surrey Police’s major crime team, said: “This was a sickening assault on a vulnerable young woman.

“Through quick police work Ahmed was identified and arrested the same day and I am extremely proud of the efforts made by the whole investigation team.”