A TEENAGE rape victim was so distressed she could not confide in her boyfriend and brother, but wrote about her ordeal in her diary, a court heard yesterday.

The attack on the 19-year-old came to light only after her boyfriend, puzzled by her strange behaviour, read what she had written, Lord Hamilton was told.

At the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday, the judge jailed Chan Wright, 25, for four years for the attack in his home in Graham Way, Livingston, on October 21 1995.

The Crown accepted his not guilty plea to confining another woman in a car last year, demanding that she commit sex acts with intent to rape.

Mr Gerard Moynihan, advocate-depute, told the court that the victim had gone to a public phone-box to make a call. Wright, married man with two young children, invited her into his house to use the telephone.

He locked the door and raped her, admitting to the police he had sex with her but alleged that she had been willing.

Mr John McLaughlin, defence, told the court that Wright wished to apologise to the woman for the distress he had caused. He stressed that Wright was a first offender and added: ''This can fairly be described as a one-off incident.''