A TRAINEE chef who brutally raped a Chester woman will be sentenced today.

Mark Caunce, 21, of Victoria Road, Buckley, admitted raping and inflicting grievous bodily harm on a 30-year-old woman at Chester Crown Court on January 21.

The attack took place in Chester city centre on Sunday, July 26, 2009.

The woman, who had been on a night out with friends, suffered a broken nose, a fractured eye socket and cheek bone, multiple bruises to the head and face, bruising around the neck, a blow to the head and cuts inside her mouth. Caunce has a previous conviction for violence but not sexual offences.