A Marvel costume designer who raped a woman after she put a banana skin in the ‘wrong bin’ has been jailed for 12 years.
Marvyn Marques, 38, launched the sickening attack after raging that his victim had put the peel in the wrong rubbish bin and later raped her again as punishment.
The freelance tailor, who claims on LinkedIn to have worked for Marvel Studios for more than four years, was arrested after a neighbour peered through a spyhole and saw him grappling with the terrified woman.
The victim told police he would ring her constantly at work, wait for her outside shops and call her names.
The court heard he grabbed her wrist, spraining it, before dragging her to the bedroom and pinning her to the bed before sexually assaulting telling her: ‘This is what you need, don’t ever be disobedient.’
After the victim reported this, Marques barricaded himself in his flat.
He later denied the charges but was found guilty of three counts of rape, engaging in coercive and controlling behaviour, assault and intentional strangulation.
According to an online CV, Marques was involved in the production of the Marvel film Ant man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
Southwark Crown Court heard how neighbours witnessed Marques throwing objects at her in the communal areas of the block of flats.
He then started kicking her and dragged her to the hallway stairs and laughed as he hit her with wooden blanks.
After police were called, the Marques cowardly barricaded himself in his flat, during which his victim revealed his history of abuse towards her.
The court heard how on one occasion, Marques fumed in rage after he found she had eaten a banana and did not chuck the skin in the proper place and raped her.
He grabbed her wrist, spraining it, before dragging her to the bedroom and pinning her to the bed.
Marques then raped her, telling her: ‘This is what you need, don’t ever be disobedient,’ jurors heard.
During this, Marques put his hands around her neck, which Judge Usha Karu added: ‘Her screams only excited you more’.
The victim told police he would ring her constantly at work, wait for her outside shops and insult her by calling her ‘disabled, crackerjack head, b**** and fat’
He gave no comment in police interviews.
Sentencing Marques, the judge told Marques that following the vile attack, the woman’s body ‘went into shock’.
‘You pulled her hair…when it had finished, she said she could barely walk,’ Judge Karu said.
‘She said that the rape, in her words, broke her. She said that the force was a ten on a scale of one to ten.’
The judge accused him of not taking ‘any responsibility for your offending and having shown no remorse’.
But she added: ‘A life sentence is not justified in this case.’
‘I find that you are dangerous and therefore pass an extended sentence.’
Marques, who was in court wearing a black coat, was jailed for 12 years with a five year extended licence.
He will serve up to two-thirds of the 12-year sentence. He was also issued a 20-year restraining order, meaning that he is not allowed to contact the victim by any means.