A RAPIST who attacked a woman after she got off a bus with him has been told to expect a lengthy jail term.

Bhupendra Chavda, of Brewery Close, Wembley, was found guilty at St Albans Crown Court last Friday of committing oral rape.

He forced the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to perform a sex act on him in an alleyway in Bushey.

The jury heard, in a trial that ended on Friday, that Chavda carried out the attack on the woman on Friday, July 28, last year after getting off at the same bus stop in the village that night.

He followed her as she alighted at the bus stop in High Road and went into an alley near St Hilda's School.

The man then forced the woman into a concealed part of an adjoining alleyway just off Baird Close where he sexually assaulted her.

Chavda had pleaded not guilty to the allegation that he intentionally penetrated the mouth of a woman without her consent, or oral rape as the charge is more commonly known.

He had admitted that sexual activity between him and his victim, who he had never met before, had taken place, but claimed it was consensual.

Chavda had been remanded in custody since his first appearance in court after his arrest and was further remanded in custody after the jury delivered its guilty verdict on Friday afternoon.

Sentencing was adjourned by Judge Baker for reports but Chavda was told to expect to spend a long time in custody.