A serial rapist with a "penchant for young girls" prayed on the innocent young pupils whom he taught.

Father-of-three Keith Ogunsola raped one of his pupils when she was 14 and then again when she was 17 while she was trying to get over her trauma.

Judge Jeff Blackett told the former teacher: "You are a sexual predator of the worst kind. You took a girl's innocence for your own perverted lust."

At Ogunsola's sentencing at Croydon Crown Court on Friday, June 15, the victim's family wept as a statement from the victim was read out.

It said: "My teenage years were stolen from me by a man who was my teacher. He took my innocence."

The victim, who can not be named, said how she now feels uneasy being alone in the presence of men.

Ogunsola, who taught in Sutton between 1998 and 2001, avoided jail in 2009 after being convicted of kissing one of his pupils in Ilford, Essex.

During that trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Ogunsola was cleared of indecent assault and attempted indecent assault at the same Sutton school.

The court heard during the 47-year-old's trial last month how, in 2001, he lured a student to the former Aerodrome Hotel, in Purley Way, Croydon, on the premise of giving her science tuition.

He took her virginity by raping her, then manipulated her into only trusting him as they began a three-year relationship.

Judge Blackett said at the sentencing: "The affect you have had on her is devastating, and by your plea of not guilty you have made her relive the ordeal again."

In sentencing him to 12 years in prison, the Judge said: "What concerns me still about you is how you can still deny the offences."

Ogunsola was found guilty of two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault and two of engaging in sexual activity while in a position of trust.