June 2015 Dean Angear, who raped a girl in Cornwall while her father watched, has been sent to prison for 11 years. The 41-year-old, took advantage of the child while she was heavily under the influence of drugs almost two decades ago. Her father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, allowed the abuse so that he could obtain sexual gratification, Plymouth Crown Court heard yesterday. He has already admitted raping and sexually assaulting the girl. A jury heard his daughter secretly recorded the father confessing to his crimes on a hidden Dictaphone. The woman told the court she was given pills, believed to be ecstasy, before Angear had sex with her. She said she could count the number of times it happened “on two hands” over a four or five-week period in 1995 or 1996. Angear had denied two specimen charges of raping the girl when she was about 14 or 15. But he was found guilty by a jury after a three-day trial. The panel of seven men and five women took three and a half hours to convict him. Jailing him for a total of 11 years, Judge Paul Darlow told him: “You took advantage of the submission of a vulnerable, and certainly sometimes drugged, girl.” He said that Angear, then aged 21, exploited the fact that the victim regarded him as a friend. The judge added: “She looked at you with some affection, as someone she could talk to.” Father-of-three Angear, a courier, had told the court he never had sex with the girl at a property in Cornwall and accused her of telling lies. The woman, who gave evidence from behind a screen during the trial, bravely sat at the back of the courtroom with members of her family while sentence was passed. The complainant said she was high on ecstasy her father had given her at the time – which would have made her incapable of giving consent. She said that she used a hidden Dictaphone to record her father confessing to his crimes in December. The jury heard the tape, where the woman turns the conversation towards the abuse and gets her father to implicate Angear. Malcolm Clarke, for Angear, said there was no mitigation he could usefully give. June 2015 Man convicted of raping schoolgirl while her father watched A MAN is today facing years in jail after he was convicted of raping a girl while her father watched. Dean Angear, aged 41, was found guilty by a jury of having sex with the child two decades ago, when she was 14 or 15. The complainant, now in her 30s, told a court that she had been abused by her father since the age of about four or five. The dad, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is in prison awaiting sentence having admitted rape and indecent assault. His daughter secretly recorded him confessing to the crimes, Plymouth Crown Court heard. She said her father allowed her to have underage sex with Angear in 1995 and 1996 while he was performing an indecent act in the same room. The woman said she was high on ecstasy her father had given her at the time. Father-of-three Angear, a courier, had denied two counts of rape at a property near Plymouth in Cornwall. The jury heard they were specimen charges and represented a greater number of offences. He claimed the allegations were “complete rubbish” and she was telling lies – though he could not explain why. But a jury convicted Angear of rape at the end of a three-day trial. The panel of seven men and five women took three and a half hours to find him guilty. The woman, who gave evidence from behind a screen during the trial, bravely sat at the back of the courtroom with members of her family while the verdicts were returned. Judge Paul Darlow remanded Angear in custody to be sentenced tomorrow. His barrister, Malcolm Clarke, asked for bail overnight so he could say goodbye to his children. But Judge Darlow said: “The jury has found he has been lying. He has chosen to take his chances and he has failed.” The woman said during the trial that she used a hidden Dictaphone to record her father confessing to his crimes in December. The jury heard the tape, where the woman turns the conversation towards the abuse and mentions Dean Angear. The father is heard to admit that he allowed Angear, then in his early 20s, to have sex with her. He has since pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting Angear to rape the girl. June 2015 Woman recorded dad confess to raping her, Plymouth jury told A WOMAN secretly recorded her father confessing to raping her as a girl, a court heard. She told a jury how she tricked the man into admitting to abusing her almost 20 years before. The pensioner is heard saying: “I hate myself. I bitterly regret it. I wish it had never happened. It was stupid.” The jury in the trial of another man, Dean Angear, was played a 45-minute recording of the conversation the woman had with her father in December last year. Angear, aged 41, is accused of having sex with the underage girl while the father sat in the same room. The dad, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has already pleaded guilty to raping and indecently assaulting his daughter. He has also admitted aiding and abetting Angear to rape the girl and is in custody awaiting sentence. Father-of-three Angear, a courier, is on trial after denying two counts of raping the girl almost 20 years ago. He denies ever having sex with her when she was 14 or 15. The woman, now a mother in her 30s, has told the court her father started sexually abusing her from a young age. His offences culminated at a property in Cornwall near Plymouth when he repeatedly raped her. The woman said that her father gave her ecstasy and allowed Angear to have sex with her while he sat watching. She added she went to speak to her father at his Plymouth flat in December last year and secretly recorded the conversation on a Dictaphone. The woman starts talking about the family but turns the conversation around to his abuse, saying she could not talk to anyone else. The court heard that in fact she had gone to the police in October that year. The man is heard saying: “I am bitterly sorry.” But he adds: “I only have a few years left. Let me die in peace.” The woman turns the conversation to Angear, who was about 21 at the time of the allegations. She is heard saying her father “made her have sex” with him. The father replied: “I am disgusted with myself. You are my daughter, that should not have happened.” Angear, giving evidence, said he knew the woman as a girl but he denied having sex with her. The defendant added he had never been inside the property where the rapes were said to have taken place. He accused both the woman and her father of telling lies about him. Angear said he had “no idea” why they would lie about him. Angear, of Grimspound Close in Leigham, has pleaded not guilty to two charges of raping a girl under the age of 16 between August 1995 and February 1996. The trial continues.