Doctor Strange actress Zara Phythian sentenced to 8years in prison
A film actress and her martial arts instructor husband have been jailed for child sex offences.
Zara Phythian – who appeared in Doctor Strange with Benedict Cumberbatch – sexually abused a 13-year-old girl together with her husband Victor Marke.
Marke also sexually abused a 15-year-old girl on his own.
At Nottingham Crown Court, Phythian, who is 37, was jailed for eight years while her husband, 59, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Judge Mark Watson said Marke was the “driving force behind the abuse”.
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.
Marke, from Mavis Avenue, Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire, was charged with four counts of indecently assaulting a child between 2002 and 2003.
The pair were jointly charged with 14 counts of sexual activity with a child between 2005 and 2008.
They both denied the offences but were found guilty by a jury and sentenced at the same court on Monday.
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.
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.
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