York University student Mustafa Ururyar has been found guilty of sexually assaulting his fellow PhD student, Mandi Gray.

In a scathing verdict Thursday, Ontario Court Justice Marvin Zuker said it was without doubt that Ururyar raped Gray on the wintry night of Jan. 31, 2015, after the two returned to his apartment. They had been casually hooking up for two weeks, and were out at a bar with mutual friends that night. Zuker said he found Ururyar’s story that it had been consensual makeup sex a “fabrication.”

“Rape it was,” he said, “not confusion, not uncertainty.”

Ururyar, a political science PhD student, looked stunned when the verdict was read. Gray’s friends and supporters — many of whom have been through sexual assault trials of their own — held hands and cried.

The case, which began the same day as the Jian Ghomeshi trial back in February, turned on the tricky issue of consent. There were no witnesses.

Ururyar’s lawyer, Lisa Bristow, had argued that Gray had gone to police a couple days after he split up with her out of fury as well as to propel herself into the limelight as a champion of sexual assault victims.

Unlike most complainants, Gray waived the publication ban on her name and appeared at court for every day in the drawn-out case. For the verdict, however, she chose to stay home.

Near the end of his two-hour-and-15-minute ruling, Zuker said it was time to dispel rape myths “once and for all.”

“No other crime is looked upon with the degree of blame-worthiness, suspicion and doubt as rape,” Zuker said in his ruling. It does not matter if the victim was drinking, he said, or out at night alone, on a date or how the victim was dressed. “No one asks to be raped. The blame lies with the perpetrator.

“Rape is an act of violence and aggression to which the perpetrator uses sex as a weapon to gain power and control over the victim.”

Gray’s supporters said the verdict had restored their faith in the criminal justice system.

“It could not have been any more different than the verdict in my case. It was incredibly validating,” said Stephanie Stella, who was a witness in a sexual assault case this past spring. “I felt finally, someone gets me.”

Crown attorney Jennifer Lofft asked that Ururyar, as a convicted rapist, have his bail revoked. Zuker said he will decide that Monday, but sentencing won’t be until Oct. 24. Lofft is asking for a medium to maximum penalty of 12 to 18 months in jail, and Bristow is hoping for no jail time.