A man has been found guilty of repeatedly raping a woman in an Ipswich flat last year. 

Dekan Saed, who is originally from Iraq but was living in Portman Road in the town at the time, stood accused of repeatedly raping, falsely imprisoning and strangling the woman during the early hours of Sunday, November 13 last year.

On Wednesday at Ipswich Crown Court, a jury found Saed guilty of all five rape allegations. 

They found him not guilty of false imprisonment, strangulation, oral sex and assault by penetration. 

Police were called just before 8.30am on November 13 by a woman reporting that she had been raped earlier that morning in a flat in Portman Road by a man she had been in contact with. 

Saed was arrested in connection with the incidents and taken to Martlesham police station for questioning.

During the trial, the woman was asked about an audio recording from her phone, in which the defendant said he wanted her to be his girlfriend.

The witness was heard to reply that they should be together for a while before becoming boyfriend and girlfriend.

However, when defence counsel Lynne Shirley asked her to confirm she made the comments, she replied: "I can't remember, but if I did, it was probably to keep him happy at this point.

"I was scared he was going to keep going."

She was subsequently asked if she had sex with the defendant and regretted it afterwards, to which she replied: "I had unconsensual sex and I hated it."

Saed continued to deny the allegations throughout the trial.

Transcripts of Saed's three police interviews were read to the court in which he called the allegations "far from true". 

He claimed the pair had been intimate, which was initiated by the woman, but said they did not have sexual intercourse before he fell asleep. 

When asked if he understood what rape was, he said: "In my country it is a really horrible thing. It is very shameful." 

Saed will be sentenced on October 4 at Ipswich Crown Court.