A police officer who admitted to raping his 12-year-old daughter several times over a three-year period more than a decade ago has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The officer, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim, pleaded guilty to seven sexual offences in April, last year but was only sentenced by High Court Judge Hayden St Clair-Douglas yesterday morning.

According to the agreed facts in the case, the officer’s wife discovered that he had been abusing their daughter in July 2010 after she found a DVD in their bedroom containing a video of one of the attacks while cleaning their bedroom.