TWO senior French police officers were today jailed for seven years for gang-raping a Canadian tourist in Paris.

The defendants – identified in court as Antoine Quirin, 40, and Nicolas Redouane, 49 – attacked Emily Spanton, 39, at the Paris equivalent of Scotland Yard.

All had been drinking in an Irish bar opposite Quai des Orfevres, which is in the centre of the French capital, by the River Seine.

Ms Spanton has since renounced her right to anonymity, so as to highlight the abuse that she went through.

She said she was made to drink whisky by a police officer, before being forced into performing oral sex acts, and then being raped repeatedly.

Ms Spanton said she was “very drunk” at the time, but when she got out of the police station she told another officer “they raped me”.

The defendants admitted to having sex with the woman in April 2014, but said it had been consensual.

It later emerged that they had destroyed vital photographic and video evidence collected on the night of their crimes.

Judges had initially thrown the case out in 2016, but it returned to Paris correctional court following an appeal.

Prosecutor Philippe Courroye said on Thursday said the officers were liars who deserved to go to prison.

He said: “By taking advantage of a young, drunk foreigner, by treating her as an object they have gone over to the side of those they chase.”

Mr Courroye called for a seven-year jail sentence, and the jury returned with a guilty verdict.

Ms Spanton, who is a policeman’s daughter, said a third officer was also involved in the gang rape, but he was never identified.