A RAPIST who targeted a schoolgirl at a party has been jailed for six-and-a-half years.

Kamran Khan, of Netherfield Road, Bolton, led the 14-year-old upstairs and performed a sex act before raping her on a bed.

The 27-year-old, who was due to get married next month and has a child, later claimed he did not realise the youngster was under 16.

While the vulnerable schoolgirl initially consented to Khan’s advances, he went on to rape her, Reading Crown Court heard yesterday.

Lucy Tapper, defending, told the court the incident was not planned and the schoolgirl was not threatened by the rapist: “They were in the room for a considerable amount of time and it is not suggested she was verbally or physically assaulted.

“The victim accepts that she could have left the room,” she said.

Khan carried out the attack in a house in Oxford, in October 2007.

Miss Tapper said the defendant had been disowned by his family after they found out about the booze-fuelled incident.

Khan sat with his head bowed as Judge Anthony King sent him to jail.

He said: “When she set out she had no intention of involving herself in any incident of sexual intercourse and she was sexually inexperienced “I accept that she did go without any form of pressure up to the room, but she did so at your instigation.

“It would have been perfectly obvious to you that she was young and inexperienced.

“You did not plan this episode in advance. It did occur relatively spontaneously and to begin with she was an unresisting party.”

Khan, who had denied rape and was convicted by a jury at Oxford Crown Court on March 6, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years behind bars and also placed on the sex offenders register for life.

He will be released on licence half way through the term.

Detective Constable Lucinda Bevan, from Thames Valley Police, said: “I am sure it is a relief to the young victim that he has been found guilty.”