Zara Phythian

Phythian's husband Victor Marke was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment for jointly abusing the same victim, as well as the indecent assault of a second girl.

They will be sentenced on Monday but the judge has told them to expect a ‘considerable period of custody’ —marking the end of their careers, in martial arts and film, if not the end of their toxic relationship. Marke was convicted of a further four charges of indecently assaulting another girl, aged 15 at the time, between 2002 and 2003. ‘I don’t wish to be rude but Vic is not the prettiest picture and Zara is a very pretty girl. ‘Then, out of nowhere, she dumped him and just said he was mean to her. Later she said she had been accused of rape and sexual abuse. She liked the fighting element and wanted to compete.’ Mr Phythian says: ‘It was a difficult one for her mum and me because Zara was exceptionally bright. Marke was 22 years older than Zara, his wife had recently had their baby — and he was supposed to be Zara’s teacher, not her lover He used his power and influence as a master of martial arts to dominate and control young girls.’ ‘Victor groomed Zara as well as his other victims,’ a former training partner of the couple said last week. Zara and her husband (pictured) were arrested in March 2017 on suspicion of sex crimes involving the girl. On Wednesday, Zara, 37, and her husband were found guilty of grooming and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old schoolgirl.

Zara Phythian and her husband Victor Marke, who was given a 14-year sentence, jointly abused their victim over a three-year period.

You were clearly aware of the first incident but pretended to be asleep. In her evidence to the court, Phythian said she was given a chance to star in films after being “spotted” at a martial arts contest in the United States. Jurors were told the abuse of the couple’s joint victim began when Phythian, then in her early 20s, asked her “Do you want to play dare?” and invited her to copy a sex act she had performed on Marke.

Film actress Zara Phythian has been jailed for eight years at Nottingham Crown Court in the UK for the historical sexual abuse of a girl who was aged ...

and invited her to copy a sex act she had performed on Marke. You were clearly aware of the first incident but pretended to be asleep. The victim, who cannot be named, told the court Marke threatened her and ordered her to film some of the abuse at the hands of the "Jekyll and Hyde" couple.

Zara Phythian was jailed for eight years for the historic sexual abuse of a girl who was aged between 13 and 15 and her husband Victor Marke sentenced to 14 ...

All the pain, anger and disgust and shame I felt is now on you. She had no make-up on and her face was pale and tear-streaked. She also spoke about feeling scared and intimidated by them. “I have become an adult now. The statement described more about the impact on her health, two years of turmoil and how she realised she was abused. The second statement was then read out to the court, which detailed the impact on the victim that Marke and Phythian jointly abused.

The actress was convicted alongside her martial artist husband, Victor Marke, who was said to be the 'driving force' behind the sexual abuse.

She said the couple had abused her once or twice a month from 2005, and said Marke had sex with her on at least 20 occasions. But in 2017 she was arrested alongside Marke, when a woman came forward alleging the couple had repeatedly sexually abused her from the age of 13. Phythian, who met her future husband when she was aged 14 and he was 37, began her move career after being spotted at a martial arts competition in the United States.

Zara Phythian and her husband Victor Marke were found guilty last week of 14 counts of sexual activity with a child after jointly grooming and abusing the ...

You were clearly aware of the first incident but pretended to be asleep. Marke, of Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire, denied touching one victim sexually and said the other complainant had given him oral sex when he was drunk and she had turned 18. Phythian, who featured in the 2016 blockbuster Doctor Strange and ran a martial arts academy, appeared calm in the dock on Monday as she was told the abuse was aggravated by its prolonged nature.

Zara Phythian - who appeared in Doctor Strange - abused a girl with husband Victor Marke.

Phythian - who was tried under her married name of Zara Marke - was jailed for eight years for her part in the abuse of the second victim. Marke was sentenced to four years for abusing the girl on his own and a further 10 years for the abuse of the second victim with Phythian, from Taurus Close, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. The court heard the couple met when he was her martial arts instructor, and Phythian went on to have a successful career in martial arts, as a stuntwoman, and actress.

Zara Phythian and husband Victor Marke were both found guilty of sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl.

"Although no punishment handed down by a court can undo the lifelong damage caused to the them, I do hope they take some degree of comfort from the knowledge that justice has now been done." The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages. Phythian was convicted on Wednesday of 14 charges of sexual activity with a child between 2005 and 2008, starting when the girl was 13 years old. Phythian and Mark have reportedly denied all allegations from both plaintiffs before being found guilty. "I remember trying to copy Zara's reaction at the time because I looked up to her and tried to be like her," the woman said, according to BBC News. She said Marke then had sex with both Phythian and the victim. According to the BBC, a police interview with the first victim was played last month at Nottingham Crown Court, in which she said, "I knew it was wrong, but I just didn't know how to get out of the situation or say anything."

Phythian and her husband were found guilty of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl together.

The court heard how the pair had first met when he was her martial arts instructor before Phythian went on to have a successful career in martial arts as a stuntwoman and actress. The pair had been found guilty last week of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl together while Marke was also convicted for sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl on his own. The star, who featured in the 2016 Marvel movie with Benedict Cumberbatch, was sentenced to eight years in prison while her martial arts instructor husband Victor Marke was sentenced to 14 years at Nottingham Crown Court.

Zara Phythian played the role of Brunette Zealot in the 2016 film Doctor Strange, which had actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role.

Zara Phythian and her husband Victor Marke had 14 allegations of sexual activity with the then minor, from 2005 to 2008. Zara Phythian, known for her role in the 2016 Marvel film Doctor Strange, has been sentenced to eight years in jail for sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl, reported BBC News. Her husband Victor Marke was also found guilty of sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl and has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. BBC News quoted the judge Mark Watson as telling Phythian during the judgement, “Whilst you denied in cross-examination that you were besotted with Victor Marke, on the evidence I have heard I am in no doubt that your deviance was shaped by the influence that he had upon you from an early age.” The judge also said that Marke was the “driving force behind the abuse”.