A violent and controlling Bradford man is behind bars awaiting a lengthy prison sentence for raping a former partner and repeatedly physically assaulting her.

The 22-year-old, who the Telegraph & Argus has decided not to name to avoid risk of identifying his victim, was cleared by a jury at Bradford Crown Court on Friday of sexually abusing the woman with a screwdriver, and a charge of assaulting her occasioning actual bodily harm.

He was convicted of raping her, controlling behaviour, and three offences of actual bodily harm.

The man had already pleaded guilty to intimidation and controlling behaviour towards the woman while he was in prison on remand, and perjury during an earlier trial that had to be abandoned.

He lied to the jury by producing a letter he had forged, claiming the woman loved him and wanted all the charges to be dropped.

The letter, beginning: “Love you millions,” continued: “OMG I am missing you so much. I just want you back, babe.”

It went on: “So hard without you,” and was signed with five kisses.

Prosecutor Matthew Bean put it to the defendant that the fake letter was “your fantasy of how you thought the relationship was.”

He suggested to the man: “You were in charge. You told her what to do. You couldn’t stand her having contact with anyone else.”

During the trial, the court heard that the man gave the woman 50 black eyes during almost daily violence throughout their volatile relationship.

After they had split up, they met at a house in Keighley where the woman was pushed face down on a sofa and raped.

“She felt unable to fight or scream, she simply froze,” Mr Bean said.

Giving evidence in the trial, the man accused his ex-partner of lying, saying: “I am the victim here.”

He said the woman was jealous and would threaten him with knives.

“She made me feel vulnerable and that no one else would want me,” he claimed.

He told the jury the woman often self-harmed and that she inflicted the “minor” injury with the screwdriver herself.

After the verdicts, Mr Bean said the defendant had also admitted conspiracy to smuggle two phones into prison. He used one of them to call the woman from Doncaster Prison to intimidate her, and to contact his then girlfriend who had admitted her part in the plot.

Judge David Hatton QC remanded the man back into custody to be sentenced on Tuesday.