A FORMER police officer, already behind bars for viciously attacking an ex-lover and her daughter, has now been convicted of sex charges.

His latest victim, who met David Ewen in a bar, contacted police after seeing newspaper headlines of a previous case, and told them how he had attacked her after an evening out ten years ago.

Now Ewen, 49, has been found guilty of raping and indecently assaulting her following a five-day trial at Southampton Crown Court, Jurors heard that the former captain of New Milton Rugby Football Club had been jailed for an unrelated assault. After returning their verdicts, they heard details of how Ewen had received a three-year indeterminate sentence for aggravated burglary and assault.

Prosecutor Charles Thomas told them that Ewen was also awaiting sentence for sex offences against three girls.

Following an application by defence barrister James Newton-Price, Judge Jayne Miller QC adjourned sentence until next month for reports and to re-assess the danger he poses to the public.

The woman told the court they went to bed after returning to her New Milton home, but after kissing and cuddling, he suddenly “flipped” her over, pinning her face down and raped her.

The assault, she said, left her in so much agony she had to go hospital where it was discovered she had broken a small bone near her spine and she was prescribed painkillers.

Ewen, formerly of Brownsea Close, New Milton, claimed sex between them was “100 per cent consensual” and he had never made her feel “uncomfortable”.

It was in May 2009, that Ewen – who joined the police as an 18-year-old and served in Manchester before leaving the force and moving south – that he received his indeterminate sentence when a judge branded him as a danger to the public.

Ewen donned a black balaclava and armed himself with a wooden truncheon before breaking into the home of former girlfriend Theresa Amey and attacking her and her daughter.