A Canadian engineer with ties to the Saudi monarchy was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday for raping an unconscious woman in his suite at The Plaza last year.

Mustapha Ouanes, 60, tried to escape sentencing by insisting he had a heart ailment that could kill him in prison. That argument was rejected by both the judge and the victim, the daughter of a decorated war hero who also has a heart condition.

“[My father] doesn’t’ ask for any special treatment,” the 28-year-old former bartender told her attacker during an emotional sentencing statement. “He waits at the VA like anyone else. I don’t know what makes you feel so special.”

The victim was raped when she and her female friend passed out after a night of carousing with Ouanes, whom the women had wrongly figured was a harmless, courtly gentleman.

“I felt I was surrounded by darkness, and couldn’t escape from it no matter how hard I tried,” she testified.

Ouanes had insisted that the sex was consensual, a claim rejected by a Manhattan Supreme Court jury in February.