Facing jail: Japanese banker who forced woman to perform humiliating chores in four-day rape ordeal

A Japanese investment banker who forced a woman to perform a humiliating list of chores during a four-day rape ordeal is facing years behind bars today.

Takehiko Ogihara, 40, demanded that the victim say a sacred oath twice a day, prepare food for him, and ask him if he wanted “sex before bedtime”.

Blackfriars crown court heard she was made to bow and apologise repeatedly to Ogihara as he carried out the attacks over four days in September 2013 at his flat in Marylebone.

Ogihara, a former executive director at Japanese financial giant Nomura International, denied the claims, and insisted he had not drawn up the list of demands.

But a jury yesterday found him guilty after a seven-day trial of two counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault, and one charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Ogihara said goodbye to his wife in the public gallery as Judge Michael Simon remanded him in custody, to be sentenced this morning.

The court heard evidence of the banker standing over the woman while kicking and slapping her and pulling her hair, between September 13-16 2013.

“She asked him to stop, but he told her that she had harmed him”, said prosecutor Charlotte Newell.

“He ordered her to undress. Whilst remaining on the floor she was repeatedly bowing and apologising.”

She said Ogihara refused to let the woman leave to go to the toilet, and he demanded that she stay awake after he went to sleep.

The victim made a note on her phone of the time and date of the attacks, and kept a photo diary of her injuries.

She then went to the police to report the “mental and physical” torture.

Ogihara, from Richmond, denied attacking the woman but admitted he had sent her a letter apologising and tried to contact her at her work.

He claimed the woman was lying about being raped and sexually assaulted.

He is due to be sentenced later today.