A 53-year-old sex fiend who raped a drunk woman he found "in a state" in the street has been jailed for nine years.

Predatory Stanley Daniels had been on the prowl in the early hours before the brutal attack on a stranger.

A judge at Maidstone Crown Court told Daniels, a married father, of Blackbull Lane, Folkestone: "I am quite satisfied there was an element of premeditation in your offending on that early morning.

"You cruised around Folkestone town centre looking for a vulnerable victim and you found one.

"She was virtually incapable through an excess of drink and having taken an Ecstasy tablet. You seized upon her as someone who would gratify your sexual appetite."

The court heard how the 34-year-old victim was found with her clothes in disarray early on March 6.

Fearing that more harm would come to the woman and he would face more serious charges, Daniels flagged down a police car and told officers he was concerned about a woman staggering around drunk.

He also made a 999 call and reported that a woman was lying in the road and would get hypothermia because she had hardly anything on.

Jonathan Higgs, prosecuting, said the woman had been out on the town and by the time she left Piper's night club she was unable to speak or walk properly and "completely out of it".

When she was later found, her knees were grazed. She was taken to hospital, where DNA testing from semen linked her to Daniels.

He eventually claimed that he met the woman that evening and had sex with her by consent.

Daniels denied vaginal and anal rape and perverting the course of justice, but was convicted.

Judge Jeremy Carey told Daniels, who will remain on the sex offenders' register for life, that he had been convicted on the clearest evidence of grave offences.