A TEENAGER was raped, beaten and sexually violated by a "violent pimp" after he got her addicted to heroin.

The woman had just left school when she fell into the grasp of Junior Bryan, after he gave her cannabis joints laced with the highly-addictive drug.

She told Teesside Crown Court how he punched her in the face and flung her onto the bed after she rejected his advances in his bedsit in Corporation Road, Darlington.

During a police interview, the woman told detectives that he then subjected her to a brutal and humiliating sexual assault before threatening to kill her if she told anyone.

Fighting back tears, she said: "When he was raping me he put his hand around my neck; it got to the point where I was seeing colours and I thought I was going to die."

She added Bryan told her she 'deserved it'.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was allegedly raped a second time when he caused significant injury to the teenager.

Jurors will hear how the defendant's abuse continued when he forced the-then teenager to dig her own grave at an isolated pond near a Darlington golf club.

Earlier in the trial, Richard Bennett, prosecuting, said the teenager was driven along a track near to the town's Blackwell Grange Golf Club on two occasions and abused.

The teenager is expected to tell the court that on the first occasion Bryan "marched her to the lake and forced her head under the water and as he did so, told her that she was to do what he said".

On the second occasion he forced her to dig her own grave before saying "well you’re not gonna fit in that are you" and began to make a joke of it.

Bryan, who is charged with the rape of the teenager, is facing a catalogue charges from 1993 to 2013 against eight women.

The 63-year-old is facing 32 charges, including multiple alleged rapes, false imprisonment, dealing Class A drugs and living off the earnings of prostitution.

Earlier in the trial, jurors heard that the alleged offences happened in Darlington, Middlesbrough, Leeds and London.

Bryan, of Marton Road, Middlesbrough, denies all charges and the trial continues.