A predator who repeatedly raped and abused a woman with learning disabilities in her own home has been jailed.

Florin Calin Trifan, from Harrow, was sentenced to 25 years behind bars at Harrow Crown Court on Wednesday after being found guilty of multiple rapes and sexual assaults.

The 40-year-old Romanian national assaulted a woman in her 20s on a number of occasions at her family home in Harrow between January 2015 and January 2016.

The victim suffers from both learning and physical disabilities and it is not known how many times she was raped and sexually assaulted during Trifan’s campaign of abuse.

Police were informed of the attacks in January 2016 after the victim spoke with a charity support worker and Trifan was arrested later that month.

Alongside his sentence, he has also been handed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, prohibiting him from working with any female with learning disabilities.

Trifan is also banned from residing at an address with any female with learning disabilities and being left unsupervised with any female with learning disabilities.

DC Angie Meadows, of the Met's Child Abuse and Sexual Offences Command, said: “Trifan controlled and manipulated the victim throughout his campaign of offences against her, causing her, and subsequently her family, considerable torment.

“Throughout the investigation he has maintained that his behaviour was merely that of a 'weak man'.

“The sentencing today reflects the seriousness of the offences and that Trifan poses a risk of serious harm to the public.”