A TEENAGER texted her boyfriend while a businessman had drunken sex with her in his office.

The girl tapped out the messages "He's getting me drunk" and "He's going to rape me", and finally "He's raped me".

Married Peter Baronowski had taken the girl to a pub for a pint of lager and then plied her with vodka at his courier firm's depot.

Baronowski, of Hopelands, Heighington, near Darlington, was jailed for three years after he pleaded guilty to four charges of inciting a child to engage in sexual behaviour on December 10, last year.

Teesside Crown Court heard police were called when the girl arrived home drunk saying he had suggested she could be a topless waitress.

The girl said that he told her "I shouldn't have done that, should I ?"

She said in a videoed interview that they had oral sex and he tried but failed to put on a condom before having full sex with her. He surrendered to police the next day 300 miles away in Crawley, Sussex.

Baronowski, 45, fled when his wife, Alison, challenged him over the girl's allegations.

However, the court was told his wife is standing by him and plans to move the family business from an industrial estate in Shildon.

The girl's grandmother reported that her schooling had suffered and she was constantly in tears, said Shaun Dodds, prosecuting.

Rod Hunt, defending, said: "There are curious elements in the evidence.

"This girl was in a full sexual relationship with an older person, and it was the talk about that relationship that must have been the catalyst for Mr Baronowski to travel down the sexual road that he did.

"During the time the pair were in the factory unit she had access to her mobile phone and she was sending texts to her boyfriend telling him what was going on.

"She omitted to tell the police about the texts, but her boyfriend said that he had received the text messages from her."

Judge Peter Armstrong told him: "You took advantage of her, that's obvious from the facts."

Baronowski was also banned for life from contacting the girl or being alone with children under 16 under a Sexual Offences Prevention Order and he was ordered to register as a sex offender for life.