A TEENAGE girl told a court how she hated the man she accused of raping her because he had ruined her life.

The girl was 13 when she was attacked while away with family friends for a long weekend.

She kept her ordeal to herself until she confided in a relative in 2005 and the police arrested the man on suspicion of rape.

On Wednesday, William Kendall, 56, of Canterbury Road, Herne Bay, was convicted of rape and remanded in custody for reports until the end of the month.

The probation service who will be preparing a report were asked by Judge Michael O'Sullivan to consider Kendall's level of dangerousness to the public.

Eleanor Laws, prosecuting, said Kendall arranged the long weekend in the summer of 2002. He was with his wife, but one night he engineered it so he was alone with the girl in her hotel room and got into bed with her and raped her.

A jury at Canterbury Crown Court first listened to the girl's interview with police after she made her allegation then heard her cross-examined by defence counsel via the court's video link.

Asked by Miss Laws what she thought of Kendall she replied: "I hate him." Asked why, she said: "Because he ruined my life."

The victim claimed Kendall would buy her alcopops and treat her as far more grown up than she was. Kendall in evidence denied giving alcohol.

At the hotel, the Kendalls' room was downstairs from the girl's room and the victim said that prior to the rape, Kendall had sent her back to her room to get more drink from the mini bar, followed her up and tried to kiss her, forcing his tongue into her mouth. He complimented her on her shorts and kept touching them, said Miss Laws.

They went out to a restaurant then later that night Kendall knocked on her door. He told her the following day, she had wanted it to happen as much as he did and he bought presents.

Kendall admitted he had convictions dating back to the 1960s and had been sentenced to 10 years in 1999 for conspiracy to evade duty. He had also served a sentence for drug smuggling.

Kendall denied following the victim back to her room and kissing her and denied engineering to be alone with her later the same evening.

"I deny anything happened at all. I can't really offer any explanation for what she is saying," said Kendall.

He said he had been given a heart by-pass and went to a doctor and discussed his impotence. He hadn't had sex with his wife since they were married or before.